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In 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal suffered world's biggest and deadliest industrial disaster ever. Thousands of Bhopali awoke from their sleep when a highly toxic gas called methyl isocyanate leaked from a local pesticide plant, killing instantly 3000 people and disabling hundreds of thousands for the rest of their lives. The night silence suddenly turned into a chaos made of screams, coughs and sobs of desperate inhabitants, whilst the only thing the chemical workers could do was to watch silently how the gas slowly invaded the buildings. Today in Blind Witnesses, the horrific gas tragedy of Bhopal.
