The Bhopal industrial disaster in 1984 released a deadly gas from a pesticide plant, killing over 4,000 people in the first few days and doubling over the next few years to around 15,000 deaths according to government estimates, though local activists say the real death toll is almost twice that. A quarter century later, thousands exposed to the gas are still dealing with health issues being passed down generations, as toxic waste from the plant continues contaminating the local soil and groundwater.