2,000 in India Protest Bhopal Relief Program
NEW DELHI — More than 2,000 victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s worst industrial accident, demonstrated Friday outside Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh’s home in New Delhi to protest slow distribution of relief.
More than 2,500 people were killed and about 500,000 were injured Dec. 3, 1984, in Bhopal in central India when poisonous gas leaked out of a pesticide plant owned by an Indian subsidiary of the Union Carbide Corp. of the United States.
A spokesman for the protest organizers said only 42,000 people are regularly receiving the $24 a month promised as interim relief.
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