Bangladesh Garment Factory Collapse

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  Bangladesh Charges 38 With Murder Over 2013 Garment Factory Collapse

  A court in Bangladesh formally charged 38 people with murder on Monday in connection with the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building which killed 1,135 people in the country's worst industrial disaster.

• More Human Remains Found in Bangladesh Factory Disaster Ruins

  Bangladesh police said on Wednesday they have recovered a skull and what are believed to be other human remains from the ruins of a garment factory complex which collapsed last year killing more than 1,000 people.

• Bangladesh's 'miracle' survivor marries and builds new life

  She was the "miracle" seamstress, plucked from the rubble of the world's worst garment factory disaster 17 days after her factory collapsed. One year on, she has married and found a new job.

• Bangladesh factory victims get money ahead of anniversary

  A fund created to compensate victims of Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster made its first payments Tuesday as the country prepared to mark the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse

• Most Bangladesh factory survivors still too sick to work: survey

  Most survivors of the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed 1,138 garment workers are still too traumatised or injured to work 12 months after the tragedy, a survey released Monday said.

• Bangladesh government seizes properties of owner of collapsed factory

  The Bangladesh government has seized properties belonging to the owner of a building that collapsed and killed 1,138 garment workers, the worst industrial disaster in the country's history, an official said on Thursday.

• Owner of collapsed Bangladesh factory faces murder charges

  Bangladesh police said on Tuesday they will press murder charges against the owner of a nine-storey building that collapsed and killed 1,135 garment workers last April, the worst industrial disaster in the country's history.

• Thousands sacked as unsafe Bangladesh factory forced to close

  Several thousand Bangladeshi garment workers have lost their jobs after their factory was discovered with serious safety problems and shut down, officials said on Monday.

• Retailers start Bangladesh factory inspections

  Safety experts hired by Western retailers on Wednesday launched mass inspections of Bangladesh clothing factories, 10 months after 1,135 garment workers died in a building collapse.

• Suspected arson at giant Bangladesh garment factory: police

  Bangladesh police said they were investigating a suspected arson attack on one of the country's largest garment factories which produces clothes for Western brands.

• Bangladesh town mayor arrested over factory disaster

  Bangladeshi police have arrested the mayor of the town where a garment factory block collapsed killing 1,129 people, for his role in approving the shoddy structure, an officer said today.

• After worst industrial disaster, authorities shut down factory at risk

  Bangladesh authorities on Wednesday shut down an eight-storey factory complex after cracks appeared in a wall, triggering panic among thousands of garment workers who feared the building would collapse, police and officials said.

• Bangladesh suspends seven inspectors who failed to check doomed factories

  Bangladesh has suspended seven inspectors it accuses of negligence for renewing the licenses of the five garment factories in a building that collapsed in April, killing more than 1,100 people.

• From factory to five-star hotel for Bangladesh's 17-day survivor

  A teenage seamstress who survived 17 days trapped under the rubble of a collapsed Bangladesh garment factory walked smiling out of a military hospital on Thursday and into a new job in a five-star hotel.

• Hundreds of garment factory workers fall ill in Bangladesh

  A doctor says about 450 garment workers fell ill during their shifts at a factory near Bangladesh's capital and the building's water supply may have been contaminated.