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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