BANGLADESH: At least 25 people killed and more than 500 injured when an eight-storey block housing garment factories and a shopping centre collapse on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital

Record ID: 216357

  • Title: BANGLADESH: At least 25 people killed and more than 500 injured when an eight-storey block housing garment factories and a shopping centre collapse on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital
  • Date: 24th April 2013
  • Summary: DHAKA, BANGLADESH (APRIL 24, 2013) (REUTERS) COLLAPSED BUILDING AMBULANCE AND FIRE SERVICE VEHICLES AT THE SCENE FIREMEN CARRY VICTIM TO AMBULANCE VARIOUS OF RESCUE WORKERS SEARCHING FOR PEOPLE RESCUE WORKERS PULL OUT A MAN FROM THE COLLAPSED BUILDING MAN BEING HELPED DOWN LADDER BY A RESCUE WORKER VARIOUS OF INJURED PEOPLE BEING CARRIED BY RESCUE WORKERS AMBULANCE TAKING
  • Embargoed: 9th May 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Bangladesh
  • Country: Bangladesh
  • Topics: Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVAAZ4H6NERTXG4GK9K8DKRZZ7HX
  • Story Text: An eight-storey block housing garment factories and a shopping centre collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday(April 24), killing at least 25 people and injuring more than 500, the NTV television news channel reported.

    "I went into the building, I have seen many people are stuck inside and I have rescued some women and some are dead there. There are many people unable to get out," said rescue worker Abdus Salam.
    Fire fighters and army personnel were working at the Rana Plaza building in Savar, 30 kilometres (19 miles) outside Dhaka, to rescue people trapped inside, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, officer in charge of the area's police station told Reuters.
    He said factory owners appeared to have ignored a warning not to allow workers into the building after a crack was detected in the block the previous day.
    Bangladesh's booming garment industry has been plagued by fires and other accidents for years.
    In November last year 112 workers were killed in a blaze at a factory in an industrial suburb of Dhaka.
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