Rana Plaza, the eight-storey commercial building that collapsed on Wednesday, housed five garment units supplying Western clothes retailers, a branch of a private bank and about 300 shops.
At least 70 people were killed and several others feared dead on Wednesday when an eight-storey commercial building collapsed in Dhaka. Rescuers retrieved 70 bodies. Scores of people were feared trapped inside the debris of the Rana Plaza, a building housing nearly three hundred shops in suburban Dhaka.
The death toll in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster crossed 800 as rescuers pulled out 51 more decomposed bodies on Wednesday from the debris of the ill-fated eight-storey building that collapsed in April. According to officials at the makeshift army control room in Dhaka, the death toll hit 803 on the 15th day after the disaster, while the number of people rescued is 2,437.
In Photos: 80 killed in Bangladesh building collapse
Thirteen people, including the owners of a garment manufacturing unit, were on Sunday charged with culpable homicide for the death of 112 people in Bangladesh's deadliest factory fire.
Bangladeshi police charged 41 people, including the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex with murder over the building's collapse in 2013.
Despite the recent Western criticism on Bangladesh's labour standards, India has a long way to go before it overtakes the neighbour in global exports.
Fire at the factory was still not doused completely more than 48 hours after the tragedy struck ahead of Eid festival.
Witnesses and media have reported that smokes were still coming out from the sight despite claims by the fire fighters to have douse the fire.
Indira Kannan picks Made in Bangladesh, Greed, Moothon.
Some workers in India were also make to work on Sundays and national holidays "in sweltering heat, without adequate supply of clean drinking water or any breaks".
With China and Bangladesh losing their edge, textile exports from Tirupur are rising once again, turning the city into a job magnet.
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