A survivor of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster in India, dances on burning effigies of London Olympic organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe and Indian Olympic Association's Vijay K. Malhotra to protest a sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals for the 2012 Olympics, in Bhopal, India, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Friday's protests come on the eve of the 27th anniversary of a lethal gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal where an estimated 15,000 people died and tens of thousands were maimed in 1984. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 but denies responsibility for Carbide's Bhopal liabilities. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
A survivor of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster in India, dances on burning effigies of London Olympic organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe and Indian Olympic Association's Vijay K. Malhotra to protest a sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals for the 2012 Olympics, in Bhopal, India, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Friday's protests come on the eve of the 27th anniversary of a lethal gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal where an estimated 15,000 people died and tens of thousands were maimed in 1984. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 but denies responsibility for Carbide's Bhopal liabilities. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster in India, and other supporters stand near burning effigies of London Olympic organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe and Indian Olympic Association's Vijay K. Malhotra to protest a sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals for the 2012 Olympics, in Bhopal, India, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Friday's protests come on the eve of the 27th anniversary of a lethal gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal where an estimated 15,000 people died and tens of thousands were maimed in 1984. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 but denies responsibility for Carbide's Bhopal liabilities. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy, the world's worst industrial disaster in India, and other supporters participate in a protest against a sponsorship deal with Dow Chemicals for the 2012 Olympics, in Bhopal, India, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Friday's protests come on the eve of the 27th anniversary of a lethal gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal where an estimated 15,000 people died and tens of thousands were maimed in 1984. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 but denies responsibility for Carbide's Bhopal liabilities. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
BHOPAL, India (AP) ? Thousands of survivors of the world's worst industrial accident blocked trains through a central Indian city on Saturday to demand more compensation for the 1984 disaster.
The protest came on the 27th anniversary of the disaster in Bhopal, where a Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked gas that killed some 15,000 people and maimed tens of thousands of others.
Activist Rachna Dhingra said that police charged the protesters with sticks to try to stop them from occupying Bhopal's five train lines, and that three people were hospitalized with injuries.
The protesters vowed to block the trains indefinitely. They have demanded that Dow Chemicals, which bought Union Carbide in 2001, pay $8.1 billion in compensation for more than 500,000 people exposed to the leak.
They say India's government accepted far too little in a 1985 settlement for $470 million, after initially asking for $3.3 billion.
Meanwhile, Dow has maintained that the issue was resolved by the settlement.
Bhopal activists and survivors are also calling for Dow Chemicals to be dropped as a sponsor of the 2012 London Olympics, with some 200 protesters burning effigies of two Olympic officials on Friday.
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