"Thousands of survivors of the world's worst industrial accident are protesting for more compensation by blocking the trains in an Indian city."
"The protests on Saturday were on the 27th anniversary of the disaster in Bhopal, where a Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked lethal gas that killed an estimated 15,000 people and maimed tens of thousands more.
Activist Rachna Dhingra said police charged the protesters with sticks on Saturday in trying to stop them from occupying Bhopal's five train lines, and that three people were admitted to hospital with injuries. The protesters, most of them women sitting on the tracks, in turn threw stones at the police.
Vowing to block trains indefinitely, the five Bhopal victims' rights groups that organised the protest demanded Dow Chemicals, which bought Union Carbide in 2001, pay $US8.1 billion ($7.9 billion) in compensation for more than 500,000 people exposed to the leak."
Sky News had the story December 4, 2011.
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"Bhopal Disaster Anniversary: A Look Back at One of History's Worst Industrial Tragedies [Pictures]" (International Business Times)
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