Bhopal survivors demand extradition

Survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster in India have been staging a demonstration in Delhi, calling for the extradition and trial of the former head of the company responsible.

The demonstrators say they're angry at a move by the Central Bureau of Investigation to reduce the charges against the former chairman of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, from culpable homicide to negligence.

Mr Anderson is now in the United States.

The accident occurred in 1984 when lethal gas from the Union Carbide plant leaked out killing thousands of people and leaving tens of thousands with serious medical problems. which was running the factory where the world's worst industrial disaster took place

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service