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Anniversary of World’s Largest Industrial Disaster Brings Candlelight & Survivors

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Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the Bhopal Chemical plant disaster. In 1984 a gas leak at a pesticide plant in India killed more than 15 thousand people . Some survivors of the accident will hold a candlelight vigil in Milwaukee on Thursday night. Gil Halsted reports…

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