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
PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)Ya don't reckon Wal Mart was contracting some garment company for inexpensive sewing labor?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Done all the time with all kinds of businesses. Even with our usa state and federal contracts we hand out.
shenmue
(38,501 posts)Botany
(70,281 posts)"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."
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)but were told it was safe to continue work.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)This will soon become quite routine in the U.S., since repukes love nothing better than completely unregulated capitalism.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)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)Of our time.
See this - incident last November at the bottom of thhe linked article:
JudyM
(29,122 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)Rescue workers are working with volunteers to free survivors still believed to be trapped inside.
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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
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Bosonic
(3,746 posts)(AFP) #BREAKING: 40 rescued alive from room inside collapsed Bangladeshi compound: TV
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/327421332457410560
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)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