WORLD'S WORST INDUSTRIAL DISASTERS
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The fires of industry have long been stoked with sweat and toil, but they have claimed even higher human price
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Here is a list of 10 of the world's worst industrial disasters
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On April 26, 1986, an explosion at a reactor of Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine spewed a cloud of radioactivity over Europe and the Soviet Union
About 4,000 people developed cancer after the incident and the area is still uninhabited, though 'mutant' animals have been spotted there
The leakage of a deadly gas at a pesticide plant in Bhopal on December 3, 1984, is also counted among the worst disasters
About 36 tonnes of methyl isocyanate gas was released into the city's air, killing around 4,000 people
Japan saw one of the worst incidents when an earthquake and tsunami caused leakage of radioactive material from Fukushima plant in 2011
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On October 23, 1989, a series of explosions killed 23 people and injured 314 at the Phillips Petroleum Company plant in Pasadena, Texas
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More than 1,100 workers died on April 24, 2013, when an eight-storey Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed
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The worst mining disaster in history claimed the lives of 1,549 Chinese labourers in 1942. It took 10 days to bring the dead to a mass grave
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