World's worst environmental disasters
World
December 03, 2014, 17:56
30 years ago world's worst industrial disaster occurred in Indian city of Bhopal
On December 3, 1984, a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide leaked about 40 tons of deadly methyl isocyanate gas into the air, killing an estimated 15,000 people and affecting at least 500,000 more in Bhopal, India. Bhopal tragedy and other world's worst environmental disasters - in photo gallery by TASS