The Bhopal Disaster Twenty Years On

Silhouette of the Union Carbide plant at dusk. Twenty years after the world's worst industrial disaster at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, which killed 8000 people and injured at least 150,000, victims are still dying. New documents investigating the disaster conclude negligence by Union Carbide (now owned by Dow Chemical) and not sabotage were responsible for the tragedy after the US owner "cut corners in design." The victims received compensation payouts of 500$ dollars each. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)