Two men set themselves on fire in protest over the arrival of hazardous waste in Pithampur, India. The protest occurred 40 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, highlighting ongoing concerns about environmental contamination.
After more than 370 tons of hazardous waste from the deadliest industrial disaster in history arrived in the town of Pithampur in central India, two men were filmed in the city on Friday dousing themselves in liquid before they were set on fire in an apparent self-immolation protest. The men poured the flammable liquid on themselves in a crowd of protesters and were then set on fire by another demonstrator.
They were taken to a hospital after the self-immolation and are 'safe now,' the administrative head of Dhar district, where Pithampur is located, told Agence France-Presse. The protest took place 40 years and one month after a chemical disaster at a factory owned by the American company Union Carbide in Bhopal. On December 2, 1984, a tank storing the toxic chemical methyl isocyanate, which Union Carbide used to produce pesticides, shattered from its concrete casing—allowing about 40 tons of the deadly gas to drift across the city of more than 2 million people. The disaster killed roughly 3,500 people in the following days from direct exposure to the poisonous chemical, and 25,000 people are estimated to have died overall as the contamination has been linked to deadly illnesses including cancers, lung disease, and kidney disease. Large numbers of babies have been born with severe disabilities, to parents affected by the gas leak, and a high rate of stillbirths in the area has been reported.But Union Carbide—now owned by Dow Chemical—and the Indian government have never carried out an operation to remove all the contamination from Bhopal's groundwater, which has been found to contain levels of carcinogenic chemicals that were 50 times higher than what's accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dow Chemical has denied liability for the accident, citing a 1989 settlement with the Indian governmen
HAZARDOUS WASTE PROTEST INDIA BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION
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