Canadian family remains haunted by Bhopal, India, gas disaster 40 years later

Saroj Bhattacharjee calls it the “biggest trauma” of his life. The 81-year-old Edmonton man was a maintenance engineer at Union Carbide in Bhopal in central India in 1984 when the toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank on Dec. 2 and 3. It's been linked to the deaths of thousands of people and half a million suffering injuries.

Canadian family remains haunted by Bhopal, India, gas disaster 40 years later
Shamik Bhattacharjee and his father, Saroj, photographed in 1984 in Bhopal, India.

Saroj Bhattacharjee calls it the “biggest trauma” of his life. The 81-year-old Edmonton man was a maintenance engineer at Union Carbide in Bhopal in central India in 1984 when the toxic gas methyl isocyanate leaked from a storage tank on Dec. 2 and 3. It's been linked to the deaths of thousands of people and half a million suffering injuries.