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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 ...
The Rana Plaza collapse (also referred to as the Savar building collapse or the collapse of Rana Plaza) occurred on 24 April 2013, when the eight-storey "Rana Plaza" commercial building collapsed due to a structural failure. The rescue team's search ended on 13 May 2013, with a confirmed death toll of 1,134. [ 2]
Benetton Group S.r.l. ( Italian pronunciation: [benetˈton]) [ 1] is a global fashion brand based in Ponzano Veneto, Italy, founded in 1965. Benetton Group has a network of about 5,000 stores worldwide. [ 2] It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Benetton family 's holding company Edizione.
But Bangladesh hasn’t seen protests with this level of violence for some 10 years since the devastating Rana Plaza collapse. The nine-story building was crammed with garment factories, and 1,100 ...
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The clock is ticking on the Bangladesh Accord on Fire Building Safety. The Accord came to be a landmark stance on garment worker safety, signed in 2013 following the Rana Plaza factory collapse ...
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 ...
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.