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Campaigners continue fight for justice 40 years after Bhopal chemical disaster

Victims of the toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India, in December 1984, seek aid in the hospital compound. AFP - BEDI

Nathuram Soni vividly remembers the night 40 years ago when toxic gas swept through Bhopal killing more than 3,500 people in the shanties surrounding the Union Carbide pesticides plant.

"People were frothing from their mouths, the 81-year-old recalls. "Some had defecated, some were choking in their own vomit."

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