1980s news clips - Bhopal disaster
- Title
- 1980s news clips - Bhopal disaster
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- Dec 1984
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:00:31
- Description
- Suresh Joshi reports on the Bhopal industrial disaster in India, in which a Union Carbide pesticide plant released 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas killing approximately 3,800 people instantly (03/12/84). From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.
- Contributors
- Suresh Joshi
- Keywords
- Accidents; India; Injuries; Companies; Disasters (events); Chemical industry; Union Carbide; Bhopal; Disasters (industrial)
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