May 3, 2013

A horrifying week for worker safety as Fire kills last survivor from Bangladesh factory collapse - owner caught fleeing to India

...Bangladesh building collapse families

Bangladeshi relatives of garment worker Mohammed Abdullah cry as they pass others looking for missing relatives while collecting his body at a makeshift morgue in a schoolyard near a building that collapsed. Picture: AP Photo/Kevin Frayer

The eight-storey building that housed five garment factories caved in on Wednesday, killing at least 381 people and trapping thousands others, most female garment workers, Dhaka police officer Liakot Hossain said.

Some 2500 people were rescued alive from the rubble, which included about 1000 seriously injured workers many of whom had to have their limbs amputated to free them from the rubble.

Police earlier arrested the fugitive owner of the building and three proprietors of export-oriented garment factories for forcing the workers to work in the building despite it developing visible cracks a day before the tragedy.

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