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Archive - 40th aniversary of the Bophal disaster 

In what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal disaster was a chemical accident that took place on December 2nd and 3rd of 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate. Magnum photographer Raghu Rai documented the deadly aftermath. 

Raghu Rai 1984

Blind people, victims of the poisoning. 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Victim of the disaster. 1984. 

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INDIA. Madhya Pradesh state. Bhopal. 1984. Even the cattle in... 

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INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. A mass cremation site in Bhopal... 

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INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Smoke coming from chimneys in Bhopal.... 

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INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Bhopal's Union Carbide building.... 

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INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Small children suffocating from... 

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This victim was identified as Leela who lived in the Chola colony... 
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Burial of unknown children, victims of the Bhopal disaster. 
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A family suffering from serious eye and lung damage. 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. This elderly woman was badly injured when... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. A man carries the body of his dead wife... 

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Poster of the dead and missing displayed all over Bhopal within... 

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In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, thousands of sick... 

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A man pastes identification labels onto dead children's foreheads... 
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Mass cremation of victims held alongside the communal graves.... 

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India. Bhopal. 1984. Cremating the dead bodies of Gas victims.... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. Survivors of the Bhopal disaster from the... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. Burial of an unknown child. 
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INDIA. Bhopal. Grafitti refers to Warren Anderson chairman of... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Memorial plaque to the victims of the Union Carbide... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Women of Bhopal show the scarred back of a young... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. An elderly woman who survived the horrors of the... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Survivors of the Union Carbide Gas leak in 1984... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Survivors of the Union Carbide Gas leak in 1984... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Survivors of the Union Carbide Gas leak in 1984... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Women of Bhopal: husbands were killed or can no... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 2000. A worker of the Union Carbide who is... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. fetuses which were aborted by pregnant women while... 
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Amarchand Ajmera, 76 years old, has committed his life to ensure... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Nanko, now 76 years old, was independent and able... 

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There is no official memorial to the 20.000 who died from the... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 2001. Skulls discarded after research at the Hamida... 

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Mohammad Khan in the cemetery where his son, who was exposed... 

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After the Bhopal disaster, Sunil became the eldest male member... 

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INDIA. Bhopal survivors protest in New Delhi, to extradite Warren... 

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Devchand, 65 years old, lives opposite the Union Carbide factory.... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. Gangaram had come to Bhopal to get treatment for... 

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Dashrat Prasad , 55 years old, is a resident of the Jayaprakash... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 2001. 

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Patients waiting for care at the Ginnori Primary Unit. 

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Zubeda Bi lost all her relatives in the Bhopal disaster. Neighbors... 

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Asma and her niece Raisa took care of elderly Zubeda Bi who lost... 

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Rehana Bi and her son. Both have eye damages from the disaster.... 

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Masked protesters gather at a statue in front of the Union Carbide... 

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Jamela Bi and Shahejahan work in a stationery centre run for... 

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Leela Devi and her husband have spent almost everything they... 

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Shakeel Quereshi was the shift-incharge at the Union Carbide... 

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Dr. Sathpathy is the forensic expert of the Hamida Hospital. 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 2002. Union Carbide abandonned its factory after... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 2002. Muhammed AZIZ returns to the cemetery where... 

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Residents of the Ayub Nagar colony still drink and wash with... 

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Born on the day the toxic gas swept across the city, this girl... 

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Survivors wait for treatment at the Samhavna Clinic, near the... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 2002. These women have all lost their husbands... 

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INDIA. Bhopal. 2002. Mehboob BI has two daughters and two sons.... 

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Swaraj Puri was the Superintendent of police in Bhopal the night... 

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Rubeda Banu with her three sons.

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Mohammad Rehan, 18 years old, was one years old when he was exposed... 

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Dr. Rashimi Jha treats victims of the Bhopal disaster at a clinic... 
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