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The location of Savar (red marker), the site of the building collapse, in relation to Dhaka. Photo of Rana Plaza taken one year before the collapse. Rana Plaza was built in 2006 and owned by Sohel Rana—allegedly a member of the local unit of Jubo League (the youth wing of Bangladesh Awami League, the political party in power).
The 2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse or Spectrum garment factory collapse was a structural failure that occurred on Monday, 11 April 2005 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where a nine-story commercial building collapsed. [3] [4] The site is located about 30 km northwest of Dhaka. The explosion of a boiler on the ground floor ...
117–124 dead [ 1][ 2] 200+ injured. The 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire broke out on 24 November 2012, in the Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [ 3] At least 117 people were confirmed dead in the fire, and over 200 were injured, [ 1] making it the deadliest factory fire in the nation's ...
On Monday, dozens of retailers signed an accord aimed at tightening safety standards in factories in Bangladesh, a move that came in response to an April factory collapse that killed more than ...
By Julhas Alam DHAKA, Bangladesh -- The owner of a Bangladesh clothing factory where a fire killed 112 people says he was never informed the facility was required to have an emergency exit, a sign ...
The case study traces the history of factory safety in the garment industry from the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York in 1911 to the factory fire at Tazreen Fashions in Bangladesh in 2012 and culminates with the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, the single deadliest safety failure in the history of the garment industry.
By Julhas Alam DHAKA, Bangladesh -- As 112 of her co-workers died in a garment-factory fire, Dipa Akter got out by jumping from the third floor through a hole made by breaking apart an exhaust fan.
Bangladeshi. Political party. Bangladesh Awami League. Criminal charge. Corruption. Criminal penalty. Three years in jail. Mohammad Sohel Rana (born 1977) is the owner of Rana Plaza [1] which collapsed in Savar, a sub-district near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. He is a Jubo League leader of Bangladesh Awami League.