A gas leak in Bhopal city in 1984 killed thousands and poisoned about half-a-million people Forty years ago, an Indian city became the site of one of the world's worst industrial disasters. 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. Not far from them in the factory of Union Carbide (India) Limited, a chemical reaction had already started to that end. At around midnight, this chemical reaction culminated in the leakage of deadly Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) gas from one of the ... An unspeakable catastrophe struck India in the shape of the Bhopal gas leak, which exposed over 5,000 people to methyl isocyanate gas and other very dangerous compounds that found their way into and surrounding the nearby small towns. On 3 December 1984, over 500,000 people in the vicinity of the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate, in what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster. [3] .
