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Bhopal recuerda el peor accidente industrial de la historia

Durante la madrugada del 2 al 3 de diciembre de 1984, una fuga de gas isocianato de metilo en la fábrica de pesticidas de Bhopal (India) provocó la muerte de miles de personas.

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  • Un hombre y una mujer muestran una pancarta que recuerda que más de 500.000 personas se vieron expuestas al gas isocianato de metilo.

    BHOPAL RECUERDA EL PEOR ACCIDENTE INDUSTRIAL DE LA HISTORIA SIN JUSTICIA

    INB06 BANGALORE (INDIA), 02/12/2014.- Varios miembros de la organización no gubernamental, Grupo Solidario Bengaluru, portan carteles y velas durante un acto de recuerdo del trigésimo aniversario del mayor accidente industrial de la historia en la ciudad india de Bhopal, en Bangalore, India, hoy, martes 2 de diciembre de 2014. La madrugada del 2 al 3 de diciembre de 1984 la planta Union Carbide India dejó escapar 42 toneladas del gas isocianato de metilo, que el viento arrastró hacia los barriadas de chabolas cercanas a la fábrica, y que provocó la muerte de al menos 15.000 personas. EFE/Jagadeesh Nv
  • En los actos de conmemoración también se ha inaugurado un museo a pocos metros de las ruinas de la fábrica, que continúan contaminadas.

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    Bhopal Gas disaster survivor Vishnu Bai listens to her taped audio testament at the Remember Bhopal museum in Bhopal on December 2, 2014. The oral history museum houses personal belongings of the victims and the deceased and is accompanied by an audio clip of their family members. The Bhopal industrial disaster, the world's worst industrial disaster in 1984 when gas leaked from a pesticides plant owned by the US multinational Union Carbide, killed about 4,000 people on the night of December 3, 1984. The death toll over the next few years rose to 15,000, according to government estimates. Thirty years later, many of those who were exposed to the gas have given birth to physically and mentally disabled children. For decades, survivors have been fighting to have the site cleaned up, but they say the efforts were slowed when Michigan-based Dow Chemical took over Union Carbide in 2001. AFP PHOTO/ INDRANIL MUKHERJEE
  • Activistas y vecinos han protagonizado una vigilia con antorchas y velas en recuerdo de las víctimas en Bhopal (India).

    Activists from Bengaluru Solidarity Group, a social group, hold candles and placards during a vigil to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru

    Activists from Bengaluru Solidarity Group, a social group, hold candles and placards during a vigil to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Bhopal gas tragedy, in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, previously known as Bangalore, December 2, 2014. In the early hours of December 3, 1984, a pesticide factory owned by U.S. multinational Union Carbide Corp accidentally leaked toxic cyanide gas in the central Indian city of Bhopal, killing thousands and leaving many more with serious illnesses. As survivors of the disaster gather to hold candlelight vigils and protests in a bid to galvanize support for victims on the disaster's 30th anniversary, the city's second and third generations of disabled children stand out in their demands. REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa (INDIA - Tags: ANNIVERSARY DISASTER SOCIETY HEALTH)

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