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Raghu Rai - INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984.
INDIA. Madhya Pradesh state. Bhopal. 1984. Even the cattle in the gas poisoned area died of suffication, while others had to be slaughtered on the spot.
INDIA. Bhopal. Victim of the disaster. 1984.
City of Bhopal. Dec. 1984. "Methyl isocayanate" gas from the Union Carbide plant (background) poisoning.
INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. Burial of an unknown child.
This victim was identified as Leela who lived in the Chola colony near the Union Carbide factory.
Burial of unknown children, victims of the Bhopal disaster.
More than 8.000 people died during the first days, cemeteries were overcrowded with no space for in
A family suffering from serious eye and lung damage.
INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. This elderly woman was badly injured when exposed to the poisonous gas. Everyone else in her family died.
INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. A man carries the body of his dead wife past the deserted Union Carbide Factory, the source of the toxic gas that killed her the night befo
Poster of the dead and missing displayed all over Bhopal within days of the disaster.
Many bodies were never identified.
In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, thousands of sick children were brought to the state government-run Hamida Hospital, their parents too ill to take c
A man pastes identification labels onto dead children's foreheads before their cremation.
Mass cremation of victims held alongside the communal graves.
INDIA. Bhopal. 1984. Survivors of the Bhopal disaster from the nearby Jayaprakash Nagar colony, stand in front of the Union Carbide factory the day after it lea
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Many people suffered from irritation, blindness or ulcers.
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. A mass cremation site in Bhopal for the victims of the poisoning, many of th
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. A mass cremation site in Bhopal for the victims of the poisoning, many of them small children, or elderly persons whose lungs and
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. A mass cremation site in Bhopal for the victims of the poisoning, many of them small children, or elderly persons whose lungs and
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Smoke coming from chimneys in Bhopal. The inhabitants live in fear of further poisoning from industrial plants.
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Bhopal's Union Carbide building.
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984.
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Small children suffocating from gas poisoning are connected to breathing apparatuses in the Hamidia Medical College and hospital o
INDIA. Bhopal disaster. 1984. Seated in front of the Union Carbide bulding, victims blinded by the gas await medical transport to take them to hospitals;
INDIA. Bhopal. 1984.
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