Poison leak - Bhopal tragedy

In the production, transportation and use of toxic substances, just a little attention is needed to leak the environment, harm human health.

The most terrifying industrial disaster in human history

The world's most serious leak is "the Bhopal tragedy" in India . Early in the morning of December 3, 1984, a US consortium's agricultural drug factory produced carbon compounds in the suburb of Bhopal, India, 45 tons of poison contained in a compressed air tank in the underground cellar, which is iso Liquid methyl cyanide flows out within 3-4 hours. The smoke-laden smoke swirling around the area caused 200,000 poisonings, more than 1,500 people died on the spot . According to the investigation, after more than a year of this incident, Bhopal residents have laid out a lot of monsters . After it happened, people called Bombay city ​​a dead city.

Such leaks sometimes occur in other countries. In April 1967, in the port of Osaka - Japan, a ship carrying lead tetra ethyl leaked out, 12 cleaning workers were poisoned, died 8 people.

In June 1967, a leaking pesticide vessel killed 40 million fish, a 420-kilometer river stretch of underwater creatures that almost died.

There are pharmacies that bring waste into the sea or buried in the ground. That job threatens people. In 1978, a storm occurred in New York state to burst waste tanks of a chemical plant, buried in an old river bed, causing leaky barrels to break, toxic leaks to make plants Black rotten dead grass, children playing there have burns on their hands and feet and nose and blood, white blood diseases skyrocketed in the population here, and pregnant women have given birth to teratogens.

People who are slightly injured by methyl iso cyanide are also deformed on the face. (Photo: epscodxb)

Poison leakage has caused the whole world to care. In order for the poison to not threaten our lives and the children and grandchildren in the future, there must be a series of scientific and strict management measures and a complete legal system.

A baby has eye deformity and dies when the methyl iso cyanide enters the body. (Photo: portland.indymedia)

The number of skulls of people infected with methyl cyanide is 20 years later. (Photo: epscodxb)

The body of the poisonous disaster victim outside the morgue in Bhopal on December 3, 1984. (Photo of Thehindu)

Photo taken on December 5, 1984: The man permanently lost his eyes because of poison gas. (Outlookindia photo)

The body lies everywhere on the ground after the disaster. (Photo of Bhopal)