Bhopal: An artist makes graffiti on a boundary wall of an abandoned Union Carbide factory ahead of the anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy, in Bhopal. (PTI Photo) BHOPAL: The effects of poisonous gases that leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal 40 years ago were seen in the next generations of those who survived the tragedy, a former government forensic doctor has said. At least 3,787 people were killed, and more than five lakh were affected after a toxic gas leaked from the pesticide factory in the city on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
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