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Question
What was the immediate and long term effects of the leakage of MIC gas from the Union Carbide’s pesticide factory in Bhopal?
Solution
This accident killed 3500 people and 40,000 people were affected in an area of 100 sq. km. Gas leakage did the people blind, loss of body control, loss of unborn babies, damage to brain, kidney, lungs, intestinal diseases, damaging the reproductive ability and plant species
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