Weatherday: Toxic catastrophe

The overnight rain will clear, but it will remain cloudy through most of the day. Temperatures will drop and it will be bitterly cold, a maximum of 2deg locally.

Near freezing from mid-afternoon and below freezing after dark. Light easterly breezes.

On this day in 1984, more than 2,200 people were killed and over half a million injured when the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, leaked 45 tonnes of toxic compounds. The final death toll was estimated at 16,000.

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