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Shortly after midnight poison gas leaked from a factory in Bhopal, India, owned by the Union Carbide Corporation. There was no warning, none of the plant's safety systems were working. In the city people woke in darkness to screams with the gases burning their eyes and lungs. Whole neighbourhoods fled in panic, many people were trampled, others convulsed and fell dead. People lost control of their bowels and bladders as they ran. Within hours thousands of dead bodies lay in the streets. Read a survivor's account of "that night". More background here.
Story of bhopal.net, Bhopal alerts from Google and a magical mystery tour of the website.
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