A court in central India ruled Monday that eight top executives of now defunct Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary are guilty for their role in the 1984 industrial disaster that killed thousands in Bhopal, India.
The leaking of poisonous gas from the local plant of the American chemical company was one of the world's worst industrial disasters. And plaintiffs had waited more than two decades for the verdict.
No additional information about the judge's ruling was immediately available. More...
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