Workers pinned in Bangladesh rubble cry for rescue

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By JULHAS ALAM and AL-EMRUN GARJON

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) - "Save us, brother. I beg you, brother," Mohammad Altab moaned to the rescuers who could not help him. He had been trapped for more than 24 hours, pinned between slabs of concrete in the ruins of the garment factory building where he worked.

"I want to live," he pleaded, his eyes glistening with tears as he spoke of his two young children. "It's so painful here."

Altab should not have been in the building when it collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 238 people.

No one should have.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130425/DA5SMHO00.html

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In this image taken from AP video, garment worker Mohammad Altab moans to rescuers for help while trapped between concrete slabs and next to two corpses in a garment factory that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 25, 2013. Deep cracks visible in the walls of the Bangladesh garment building had compelled police to order it evacuated a day before it collapsed, officials said Thursday. More than 200 people were killed when the eight-story building splintered into a pile of concrete because factories based there ignored the order and kept more than 2,000 people working. (AP Photo/AP video)

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. In a just world, Matt Yglesias would be fired for writing that.

And anyone...anyone who agrees with him (Stossel, et al) would be shunned from civilization and forced to go live in a cave.

[lastlib]

4. "But it's OK--they're just workers"....said the mega-corporations...

. . . . . . . . .

[get the red out]

5. +1

We outsource slavery and throw away our morals.

[hamsterjill]

6. Simply heartwrenching...

There are no words.