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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 04:59 AM Apr 2013

Bangladesh factory building collapse kills over 70, injures hundreds

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - An eight-storey block housing factories and a shopping centre collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing more than 70 people and injuring hundreds, a government official said.

Fire fighters and army personnel worked frantically through the morning at the Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka, to rescue people trapped inside.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/24/uk-bangladesh-building-idUKBRE93N06U20130424

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PuffedMica

(1,061 posts)
1. I wonder what company was having products made there?
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 05:54 AM
Apr 2013

Ya don't reckon Wal Mart was contracting some garment company for inexpensive sewing labor?

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
11. these hellholes do 'sub contract' work, through the contractor.
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 01:19 PM
Apr 2013

Done all the time with all kinds of businesses. Even with our usa state and federal contracts we hand out.

Botany

(70,281 posts)
3. A Wal-Mart supplier what a shock
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:32 AM
Apr 2013

"He said that his firm had been sub-contracted to supply Wal-Mart Stores Inc,
the world's largest retailer, and Europe's C&A."

Zoeisright

(8,339 posts)
9. Coming soon to a Texas town near you ...
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 12:52 PM
Apr 2013

This will soon become quite routine in the U.S., since repukes love nothing better than completely unregulated capitalism.

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
13. I read that the police had evacuated the place earlier
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 02:22 PM
Apr 2013

Due to cracks in the walls/foundations, but then the engineer working for the corporation deemed it just fine and everyone was ordered back to work.

This is what happens when labor laws are lacking and business regulates itself.

JustAnotherGen

(31,681 posts)
12. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 02:10 PM
Apr 2013

Of our time.


See this - incident last November at the bottom of thhe linked article:

Tazreen lacked emergency exits, and its owner said only three floors of the eight-story building were legally built. Surviving employees said gates had been locked and managers had told them to go back to work after the fire alarm went off.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
16. Now at least 175 dead
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 06:05 AM
Apr 2013
A frantic search for survivors is continuing at a building outside the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, which collapsed, killing at least 175 people.

Rescue workers are working with volunteers to free survivors still believed to be trapped inside.
...
The factory owners are now said to have gone into hiding. Police say that cases have been filed against the building owner and the owners of the factories for causing unlawful death.

The exact number of those trapped is not clear, but accounts from survivors and eyewitnesses suggest there may be hundreds still unaccounted for.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22289362

Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
18. 40 rescued alive from room inside collapsed Bangladeshi compound: TV
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 10:01 AM
Apr 2013

(AFP) #BREAKING: 40 rescued alive from room inside collapsed Bangladeshi compound: TV

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/327421332457410560

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
20. Article:
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 12:32 PM
Apr 2013
The news that 40 people had been found alive was greeted with jubilation at the scene, the BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.

One rescue official told the BBC that the group was found after they were heard screaming in the rubble.

The military said at least 12 of the group had since been pulled free.

Search teams have been dropping water bottles and food items to other survivors who are still trapped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22299929
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