Bhopal, Dec 3: Thousands of survivors of the world’s worst industrial accident blocked trains through a central Indian city on Saturday to demand more compensation.
The protests 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 that police charged the protesters with sticks Saturday in trying to stop them from occupying Bhopal’s five train lines, and that three people were hospitalized with injuries. The protesters, most of them women sitting on the tracks, in turn threw stones at the police.
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