32 years on, Bhopal gas tragedy victims still await justice
3 Dec 2016 12:15 PM IST3 Dec 2016 12:15 PM IST
An organisation fighting for their cause has alleged that the victims are still waiting for adequate relief and justice.
Bhopal is observing 32nd anniversary of gas leak tragedy on Saturday as on the intervening night of December 2 and 3 in 1984, several hundred people were killed and scores of people were maimed for life when the Methyl Isocyanate gas was leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide. (Photos: AP)- Meanwhile, five NGOs are planning to burn the US flag along with the logos of the two multi-national companies. They have been accusing the US administration and Dow Chemicals and DuPont of being inhumane towards people still suffering due to the toxic waste of the now defunct Union Carbide factory. (Photo: AP)
- The responsibility for providing safe drinking water to the affected population is entirely that of the state government, which is yet to fulfil its responsibility in this regard, Jabbar said. (Photo: AP)
- He alleged that the state government has failed to address adequately and with sensitivity' a host of socio- economic problems that confront the chronically sick, the elderly, the differently-abled, the widowed, and other vulnerable sections among the gas victims. (Photo: AP)
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Bhopal is observing 32nd anniversary of gas leak tragedy on Saturday as on the intervening night of December 2 and 3 in 1984, several hundred people were killed and scores of people were maimed for life when the Methyl Isocyanate gas was leaked from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide. (Photos: AP)
An organisation fighting for their cause has alleged that the victims are still waiting for adequate relief and justice.
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