Thousands march to mark Bhopal disaster

Thousands of civil rights activists, survivors and other protesters gathered in Bhopal today to mark the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial accident and demand justice for hundreds of thousands of people still suffering in the aftermath.

A leak of 40 tons of poisonous gas from a Union Carbide pesticide plant on December 3, 1984 killed about 15,000 people in the central Indian city and affected some 555,000 more.