DISASTERS : COUNTRIES: BANGLADESH: Bangladesh Garment Factory Owners Warned to Evacuate Before Collapse That Left Almost 200 Dead

[David P. Dillard]

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DISASTERS :

COUNTRIES: BANGLADESH:

Bangladesh Garment Factory Owners Warned to Evacuate
Before Collapse That Left Almost 200 Dead

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Bangladesh Garment Factory Owners Warned to Evacuate
Before Collapse That Left Almost 200 Dead

April 25, 2013, 5:48 AM

Associated Press (AP)

CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57581334/bangladesh-
garment-factory-owners-warned-to-evacuate-before-
collapse-that-left-almost-200-dead/

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With deep cracks visible in the walls, police had ordered a Bangladesh
garment building evacuated the day before its deadly collapse, but the
factories flouted the order and kept more than 2,000 people working,
officials said Thursday. At least 194 people died when a huge section of
the eight-story building splintered into a pile of concrete.

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The disaster in the Dhaka suburb of Savar came less than five months after
a blaze killed 112 people in a garment factory and underscored the unsafe
conditions faced by Bangladesh's garment workers, who produce clothes for
brands worn around the world. Some of the companies in the building that
fell say their customers include retail giants such as Wal-Mart.

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Hundreds of rescuers, some crawling through the maze of rubble in search
of survivors and corpses, worked through the night and into Thursday amid
the cries of the trapped and the wails of workers' relatives gathered
outside the building, called Rana Plaza, which housed numerous garment
factories and a handful of other companies.

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"Save us brother. I beg you brother. I want to live," moaned Mohammad
Altab, a garment worker pinned tightly between two concrete slabs and next
to two corpses.

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"We want to live brother, it hard to remain alive here. It would have been
better to die than enduring such pain to live on. We want to live, please
save us," the man cried.

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After the cracks were reported Tuesday, managers of a local bank that also
had an office in the building evacuated their workers. The garment
factories, though, kept working, ignoring the instructions of the local
industrial police, said Mostafizur Rahman, a director of that paramilitary
police force.

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The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association had also
asked the factories to suspend work starting Wednesday morning, hours
before the collapse.

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On a visit to the site, Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir told
reporters the building had violated construction codes and that "the
culprits would be punished."

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The New Wave companies, according to their website, make clothing for
major brands including North American retailers The Children's Place and
Dress Barn, Britain's Primark, Spain's Mango and Italy's Benetton. Ether
Tex said Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, was one of its customers.

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