The convoy has “the most important safety protocol ever observed in the field of industrial waste movement” in India, described Swatantra Kumar Singh, director of the local disaster management department, to the daily “Times of India “.
These toxic materials must be incinerated.
Inertia of the authorities
In December, after the 40th anniversary of the tragedy, the Madhya Pradesh state high court ordered the operation, granting a one-month deadline to do so. “Are you expecting another tragedy? » had launched the first magistrate of the court, Suresh Kumar Kait, to the authorities, criticizing the “inertia” of the authorities responsible for the decontamination, according to the “Times of India” and the daily “Indian Express”.
Local residents claim that the leak of a highly toxic gas from a factory of the American group Union Carbide in December 1984 in Bhopal contaminated the water table and was responsible for a high number of illnesses.
28,000 dead
On the night of December 2 to 3, 1984, 27 tons of methyl isocyanate, a substance used to produce pesticides, escaped from a tank at the factory. Some 3,500 people died in the first three days of the disaster. An estimated 25,000 people died in the years that followed.
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