the largest mass poisoning
of a population
in history... beyond the accidents at Bhopal, India,
in 1984,
and Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986."
Well-meaning development groups had encouraged remote villages across Bangladesh to dig wells over the past decades, rather than rely on potentially contaminated surface water and dirty rivers. But now potentially a much worse problem has been found far below the surface.
Arsenic is a deadly poison with a history of use in intrigue and assassination.