Anti-incineration of '5,000 Disaster Toxic Garbage' in India... "Trying to set 2 people on their own feet"

Residents around the plant have come out against incineration after Indian authorities recently moved toxic waste from the site of the Bhopal disaster, which killed 5,000 people 40 years ago in a toxic gas leak, to a nearby incineration plant.

According to local media in India on the 4th, hundreds of residents of Pitampur, central India's Madhya Pradesh, protested against incineration the day before.

In the process, two men in their 40s attempted to set themselves on fire and were taken to a hospital, and it is known that their lives are not in danger.

As the residents began marching toward the incinerator, the police used water cannons and other items to disperse them.

Residents opposed to incineration argued that burning the toxic waste in the factory would adversely affect nearby residents and the environment.

Earlier on the 1st, state authorities distributed 337 tons of toxic waste that had been piled up for 40 years to a US chemical company in Bhopal, the capital, into containers and moved them to an incineration plant in Pitampur, 230 kilometers away.

On December 2, 1984, 40 tons of toxic methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the accident plant, killing 5,000 people and injuring 500,000 people.

Even after the Bhopal disaster, more than 20,000 people died from the aftereffects, making it the worst industrial accident in human history.