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Amar Balikai (abalikai@theatl.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 07:01:59 JST Amar Balikai
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- ❄️☃️Merry Jerry🎄🌲
@jerry the moment I heard about the fire I immediately thought of the Bhopal, India tragedy. Water reactive chemicals were exposed to water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster. Praying for everyone in #Atlanta exposed to this probably preventable incident.
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  Bhopal disaster
  
  The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. In what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC). Estimates vary on the death toll, with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259. In 2008, the Government of Madhya Pradesh paid compensation to the family members of 3,787 victims killed in the gas release, and to 574,366 injured victims. A government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused 558,125 injuries, including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries. Others estimate that 8,000 died within two weeks, and another 8,000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases. The owner of the factory, UCIL, was majority-owned by the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) of the United States, with Indian government-controlled...