Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from a chemical factory that witnessed one of the world's deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago. Thousands of people died in the central city of Bhopal in December 1984 after breathing a poisonous gas leaked from the factory.

Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people, to a disposal facility where it will take three to nine months to incinerate.

Indian authorities said on Thursday they had completed moving toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people.:: December 3, 1984On December 3, 1984 a methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by American firm Union Carbide,

Authorities in India have removed hundreds of tonnes of toxic waste from an Indian chemical factory that witnessed one of the world's deadliest gas leaks 40 years ago. A court in December had set a four-week deadline for the waste to be disposed.

Bhopal: A dozen GPS-enabled container trucks carrying 337 tons of toxic waste, left over from the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, reached Pithampur incineration facility in Dhar district in

A convoy of trucks took away 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, 40 years after what is regarded as the world’s worst industrial disaster. The trucks left the abandoned Union Carbide plant in the capital of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday night despite protests by workers of the disposal plant the waste was destined for.