Indian authorities said on Thursday (Jan 2) they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a disposal facility where it will take three to nine months to incinerate.
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00:00Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site
00:07of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a disposal
00:13facility where it will take three to nine months to incinerate.
00:17A convoy of trucks were seen leaving the site late on Wednesday with authorities saying
00:22the disposal process would follow proper safety guidelines outlined by the government.
00:27In the early hours of December 3, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory
00:56owned by American Union Carbide Corporation, poisoning more than half a million people
01:01in Bhopal, capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
01:05Built in 1969, the Union Carbide plant, which is now owned by Dow Chemical, was seen as
01:12a symbol of industrialization in India, generating thousands of jobs for the poor and at the
01:17same time manufacturing cheap pesticides for millions of farmers.