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What is Bhopal gas tragedy? Mention the after effect of Bhopal gas tragedy.

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Bhopal gas tragedy was a gas leak incident in India. This incident is considered as the world's worst industrial disaster. It occurred at the midnight of 2-3 December, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Over 5,00,000 people were exposed to the poisonous methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. Among those people around 3000 people died from immediate effect of the gas leakage. The initial effects of exposure were coughing, vomiting, severe eye irritation and suffocation. The people of the affected area still suffering from the after effects of the tragedy.
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