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1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy: One Of The World's Major Industrial Accidents
At least 3,787 people were killed after toxic gas leaked from the now-defunct Union Carbide pesticide factory here on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
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Anger, Confusion As Delhi Fire Victims' Families Struggle To Find Bodies
At least 50 people have been rescued from the building and around 29 are still reported to be missing, police said, adding that the ongoing search operation is likely to be completed in the next few hours.
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy Among World's "Major Industrial Accidents": UN Report
The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which killed thousands of people is among the world's "major industrial accidents" of the 20th century, a UN report has said, warning that 2.78 million workers die from occupational accidents and work-related diseases each year.
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Number Of Deaths Rises To 58 In Southern China Landslide
Chinese authorities say rescuers have dug out 58 bodies from a massive landslide at a construction waste dump in southern China more than two weeks ago.
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8 Survivors Found 5 Days After Chinese Mine Collapsed
Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China today found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event.
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Questions Mount Over Failure To Prevent China Mudslide
Officials highlighted their handling of the search for 76 missing people at a collapsed mountain of construction waste as questions mounted today about why leaders in southern China's most prominent manufacturing city didn't act months earlier to prevent the disaster.
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China's Shenzhen Warned Of Waste Problem A Year Before Disaster
Over a year ago, a government-run newspaper warned that a boomtown in southern China would run out of space to dump the waste left behind from a building frenzy.
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91 Missing After Landslide Devastates Chinese Industrial Park
At least 91 people were missing after a huge mound of mud and construction waste collapsed at a business park in southern China and buried 33 buildings in the country's latest industrial disaster.
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10 Workers Killed in Wall Collapse at Industrial Plant in Tamil Nadu
Ten people, all reported to be factory workers, died after a wall collapsed today in an industrial plant in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu.
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Safety Violations at China Auto Dactory Led to Dust Blast: Report
Chinese officials have blamed the chairman of a car parts factory in eastern China and local regulators for safety breaches that led to the most deadly industrial accident in a year, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
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Explosion at Factory in Eastern China Kills 65
An explosion killed at least 65 people and injured more than 120 at a factory in China that makes wheels for U.S. carmakers, including General Motors, state media said, as the country suffered its worst industrial accident in a year.
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Chlorine gas leak in Pune: 20 hospitalised
Twenty people were hospitalised today following a chlorine gas leak from an effluent treatmentplant in Pimpri Chinchwad area in Pune district.The leakage in the plant triggered a scare in the area with people living in nearby localities shifting temporarily as a precautionary measure.The patients, who complained of cough and eye irritation after th...
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It's hard to kick oil addiction despite ugly risks
America is seeing the usually hidden costs of fossil fuels -- an oil spill's potential for huge environmental and economic damage, and deaths in coal and oil industry accidents.
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Poisonous gas kills five at Tamil Nadu tannery
Five people died on Friday in Tamil Nadu's Vaniyambadi district, after inhaling poisonous gas at a local tannery.The victims were cleaning a tank used for chemical treatment of leather, when they were exposed to the gas.More details are awaited.
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1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy: One Of The World's Major Industrial Accidents
At least 3,787 people were killed after toxic gas leaked from the now-defunct Union Carbide pesticide factory here on the intervening night of December 2 and 3, 1984.
-
Anger, Confusion As Delhi Fire Victims' Families Struggle To Find Bodies
At least 50 people have been rescued from the building and around 29 are still reported to be missing, police said, adding that the ongoing search operation is likely to be completed in the next few hours.
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Bhopal Gas Tragedy Among World's "Major Industrial Accidents": UN Report
The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which killed thousands of people is among the world's "major industrial accidents" of the 20th century, a UN report has said, warning that 2.78 million workers die from occupational accidents and work-related diseases each year.
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Number Of Deaths Rises To 58 In Southern China Landslide
Chinese authorities say rescuers have dug out 58 bodies from a massive landslide at a construction waste dump in southern China more than two weeks ago.
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8 Survivors Found 5 Days After Chinese Mine Collapsed
Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China today found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event.
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Questions Mount Over Failure To Prevent China Mudslide
Officials highlighted their handling of the search for 76 missing people at a collapsed mountain of construction waste as questions mounted today about why leaders in southern China's most prominent manufacturing city didn't act months earlier to prevent the disaster.
-
China's Shenzhen Warned Of Waste Problem A Year Before Disaster
Over a year ago, a government-run newspaper warned that a boomtown in southern China would run out of space to dump the waste left behind from a building frenzy.
-
91 Missing After Landslide Devastates Chinese Industrial Park
At least 91 people were missing after a huge mound of mud and construction waste collapsed at a business park in southern China and buried 33 buildings in the country's latest industrial disaster.
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10 Workers Killed in Wall Collapse at Industrial Plant in Tamil Nadu
Ten people, all reported to be factory workers, died after a wall collapsed today in an industrial plant in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu.
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Safety Violations at China Auto Dactory Led to Dust Blast: Report
Chinese officials have blamed the chairman of a car parts factory in eastern China and local regulators for safety breaches that led to the most deadly industrial accident in a year, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
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Explosion at Factory in Eastern China Kills 65
An explosion killed at least 65 people and injured more than 120 at a factory in China that makes wheels for U.S. carmakers, including General Motors, state media said, as the country suffered its worst industrial accident in a year.
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Chlorine gas leak in Pune: 20 hospitalised
Twenty people were hospitalised today following a chlorine gas leak from an effluent treatmentplant in Pimpri Chinchwad area in Pune district.The leakage in the plant triggered a scare in the area with people living in nearby localities shifting temporarily as a precautionary measure.The patients, who complained of cough and eye irritation after th...
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It's hard to kick oil addiction despite ugly risks
America is seeing the usually hidden costs of fossil fuels -- an oil spill's potential for huge environmental and economic damage, and deaths in coal and oil industry accidents.
-
Poisonous gas kills five at Tamil Nadu tannery
Five people died on Friday in Tamil Nadu's Vaniyambadi district, after inhaling poisonous gas at a local tannery.The victims were cleaning a tank used for chemical treatment of leather, when they were exposed to the gas.More details are awaited.
