P.M. BRIEFING : Carbide Gives India $465 Million
Union Carbide today handed over $465 million to the Indian Supreme Court to compensate victims of the Bhopal poison gas tragedy.
The Danbury, Conn.-based chemical company delivered the money ahead of the March 23 deadline set by the court last week when it handed down its $470-million judgment. About $5 million had been dispersed previously.
More than 2,000 people were killed on Dec. 3, 1984, when poison gas escaped from Union Carbide’s pesticides factory in the central Indian city of Bhopal in history’s worst industrial disaster. The death toll now stands at more than 3,400 with victims dying at the rate of one a day.
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