In the new pesticide plant.

More than five years after deadly gas leaked from a pesticide plant here, causing the world's worst industrial disaster, relief payments are reaching many of the surviving victims.

More than 3,800 people have died since deadly gas escaped from a pesticide plant managed by an Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide.

But weapons inspectors have been monitoring more than 300 other locations, from breweries and pesticide plants to microbiology laboratories, that could be used to make biological weapons.

It said the leakage of toxic gas from a pesticide plant operated by Union Carbide had been caused by negligence.

A state contractor plans to burn 28,500 barrels of toxic waste, including dioxin, at an abandoned pesticide plant.

India is seeking damages of $3.3 billion in connection with the leak at a pesticide plant that killed more than 2,500 people.

The Government initially demanded $3 billion in damages for the toxic gas leak at the pesticide plant operated by the company.

In December of 1984, a gas leak at a pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed 3,000 people.

Shell's pesticide plant was in operation from 1952 to 1982.