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India clears toxic waste from Bhopal gas leak site, 40 years after disaster

The now-defunct Union Carbide factory located behind a slum in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh [File: Gagan Nayar/AFP]

Indian authorities say they have moved hundreds of tonnes of hazardous waste remaining more than 40 years after the world’s deadliest industrial disaster struck the city of Bhopal.

The waste from the site of the 1984 disaster, which killed more than 25,000 people and left at least half a million people with severe health issues, was sent to a disposal facility where it will take three to nine months to incinerate, officials said on Thursday.

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