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Verdens værste industrielle katastrofe

Verdens værste industrielle katastrofe

Mens folk lå trygt og sov en lun decembernat i den indiske by Bhopal i 1984, skete katastrofen. Efter et gasudslip på en nærliggende pesticidfabrik sneg 40 tons giftgas sig ind over området. Det anslås, at 7.000 indbyggere døde i løbet af de første tre dage, og at 500.000 i dag lever med helbredsproblemer. Det er snart 34 år siden, men delstatsregeringen har endnu ikke fået ryddet op, og der ligger stadig flere hundrede tons kontamineret affald. The Atlantic har besøgt Bhopal, der stadig hjemsøges af den grufulde decembernat.

Masked women demonstrators raise their arms in protest at the Central Bureau of Investigaters (CBI) in the city of Bhopal July 13, 2002. The protesters demanded the CBI pursue and put on trial former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson. More than 3, 000 people were killed and tens of thousands injured when a tank at the Union Carbide of India Ltd (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal leaked five tonnes of poisonous methyl isocyanate gas on the night of December 2, 1984. REUTERS/Raj Patidar JSG/RCS - RTR7L1K

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