The Bhopal disaster Catastrophe , also referred Name_conferral to as the Bhopal gas tragedy , was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited ( UCIL ) pesticide plant in Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh , India .

The government of Madhya Pradesh confirmed Check a total of 3,787 deaths Death related to the gas release .

In 1994 , UCC sold Commerce_sell its stake in UCIL to Eveready Industries India Limited ( EIIL ) , which subsequently merged Cause_to_amalgamate with McLeod Russel ( India ) Ltd. Eveready ended Process_end clean-up on the site in 1998 , when it terminated Process_end its 99-year lease Renting and turned Becoming over control of the site to the state government of Madhya Pradesh .