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  1. The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.In what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC). Estimates vary on the death toll, with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259. In 2008, the Government of ...

  2. Jun 17, 2024 · Bhopal disaster, chemical leak in 1984 in the city of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh state, India, during which about 45 tons of methyl isocyanate escaped from an insecticide plant. Tens of thousands of people were killed, some half a million others suffered maladies, and the site remained contaminated decades after the leak.

  3. Dec 3, 2022 · On the night of December 2, 1984, one of the biggest industrial disasters to ever take place began unfolding in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Harmful Methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas started leaking from a nearby Union Carbide pesticide plant, eventually resulting in the Bhopal Gas tragedy, where an estimated 3,000 people died within the first few days.

  4. Apr 25, 2017 · The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster What remains of the Bhopal-Union Carbide plant years after the disaster. A Brief Overview . On the night of December 2 and 3, 1984, methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other chemicals leaked from a pesticide plant located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

  5. Mar 14, 2023 · The Bhopal gas tragedy remains the deadliest industrial accident in human history. (India Today archive) Alternative estimates put the number of deaths caused directly by the incident in the tens of thousands, with hundreds of thousands experiencing long-term effects from the gas or the infected ground water that has persisted in Bhopal to this day.

  6. Jul 17, 2021 · The Bhopal Gas tragedy occurred between December 2nd and 3rd 1984, at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, India.

  7. Dec 2, 2023 · The Bhopal Gas Tragedy was an industrial accident that occurred on the night of December 2-3, 1984, at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.

  8. BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY RELIEF AND REHABILITATION. THE TRAGEDY On a cold wintry night of December, 2nd /3rd December, 1984, when the residents of capital city of Bhopal went to their beds, they had no inkling that many of them were doing so for the last time.

  9. As per a state government affidavit filed in the court in the year 2006, the tragedy had killed 3,787 people and affected more than 5.58 lakh in the state capital after toxic gas leaked from the ...

  10. On the night of December 2-3 in 1984, Bhopal saw a tragedy that has no parallel in the world's industrial history. The leakage of the deadly methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas from Union Carbide India ...