30 years after Bhopal gas tragedy 10 Photos . Updated: 27 Nov 2014, 09:46 PM IST Livemint On the intervening night of 2-3 December, 1984, a poisonous gas called methyl isocyanate leaked from a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide India Ltd in Bhopal, turning the city into a gas chamber. The aftermath of one of the world's worst industrial accidents in images. 1/10Burial of an unknown child in Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984. Photo: Raghu Rai. 2/10Mass funeral pyres burn even as dead bodies pile up after the accident. Courtesy: India Today 3/10Carcasses of cattle being removed from the streets. Courtesy: India Today 4/10A grieving relative of a victim. Courtesy: India Today 5/10The Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in 1984. Photo: PTI 6/10The rusting of the Union Carbide plant in 2009. Photo: Mint 7/10An outside view of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal in 1984. Courtesy: India Today 8/10A damaged wall of the Union Carbide compound in 2009. Photo: Mint 9/10The decaying structure of the Union Carbide compound in 2009. Photo: Mint 10/10A painting that depicts the disaster, at the Sambhavna Trust in Bhopal. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint