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Bhopal Residents Bring Toxic Warnings

Sarita Malviya, 16, of Bhopal, India, tells an audience at West Virginia State University that contaminated drinking water and a birth-defect rate five times the national average are among the lingering effects of a 1984 MIC release from a Carbide chemical plant that killed thousands in her hometown. (photo: Kenny Kemp)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Sarita Malviya wasn't born when an explosion at a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, on Dec. 3, 1984, sent a cloud of deadly gas containing the compound methyl isocyanate into the old section of the city, searing the lungs and causing the deaths of at least 4,000 people.

When her family moved to Bhopal years after the world's worst industrial disaster, "we had no idea that Union Carbide left toxic waste in three ponds," she said through an interpreter.

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