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Hospitals and municipal cremation grounds were overwhelmed on 3 December. The first official immediate count, 2,259, is still the figure many legal summaries use for the night itself. A 2006 government affidavit and later health-department statements raised injury counts above 500,000 and later death attributions into five figures.
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Bhopal disaster · paras 2
Water entering the MIC tank is the physical trigger most official reconstructions accept. How the water got there, and how far that question matters beside disabled safeguards, remains a secondary argument. This page does not reconstruct a method. The public fact is an uncontrolled release over sleeping neighbourhoods.
Bhopal disaster · paras 1
Hospitals and municipal cremation grounds were overwhelmed on 3 December. The first official immediate count, 2,259, is still the figure many legal summaries use for the night itself. A 2006 government affidavit and later health-department statements raised injury counts above 500,000 and later death attributions into five figures.
Bhopal disaster · paras 2
Indian Council of Medical Research studies and independent clinics documented chronic illness in exposed wards. English sources that print a single “20,000 dead” without a date are collapsing advocacy totals with the 1984 municipal count. Responsible reference keeps the night, the decade and the model separate.
Bhopal disaster · paras 1
The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster (Processing of Claims) Act 1985 made the Union of India the exclusive representative of claimants. After failed United States forum litigation, the Supreme Court on 14–15 February 1989 recorded a US$470 million settlement and, in the first order, also quashed criminal cases — a step later undone after protest.
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Indian Council of Medical Research studies and independent clinics documented chronic illness in exposed wards. English sources that print a single “20,000 dead” without a date are collapsing advocacy totals with the 1984 municipal count. Responsible reference keeps the night, the decade and the model separate.
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The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster (Processing of Claims) Act 1985 made the Union of India the exclusive representative of claimants. After failed United States forum litigation, the Supreme Court on 14–15 February 1989 recorded a US$470 million settlement and, in the first order, also quashed criminal cases — a step later undone after protest.
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