BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY
Thirty years ago on December 3, 1984, a union carbide pesticide factory in the city of Bhopal, India, released at least 30 tons very toxic gas gases called methyl isocyanate and a number of other poisonous gases. The union carbide factory is surrounded by a slum town that is caused more than 600.00 people to be hit by a deadly gas cloud that night. The gases remain low to the ground, causing victims of throat and eyes to burn, causing nausea, and many deaths. Estimates of the death toll varied from at least 3,800 to as many as 16,000, but government figures now refer to estimates of 15,000 killed over the years. Toxic substances remain, and 30 years later, many were exposed to gas when they gave birth to physically and mentally handicapped children. For decades, survivors have been trying to clean up the site, but they say efforts have slowed down when Michigan-based Dow Chemical took over Union Carbide in 2001. Human rights groups say that thousands of tons of hazardous waste remain