Bangladesh Building 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.

• 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.

• Bangladesh panel to recommend life in prison over building collapse

  A committee investigating a deadly collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the panel's chief said on Tuesday.

• Benetton agrees to sign Bangladesh safety pact

  Benetton has become the latest global retailer to agree to sign a one-of-kind pact to improve safety at Bangladesh factories following a building collapse that killed more than 1,100 workers in the country last month.

• Bangladesh disaster site to become rehabilitation centre

  Bangladesh plans to take over the site of the collapsed nine-storey building which killed 1,127 people and convert it into a rehabilitation centre for the victims, a minister said on Tuesday.

• Bangladesh collapse survivor gives up garment work

  The 19-year-old seamstress who spent 17 days trapped in the rubble of a collapsed factory building said on Monday that she will never again work in a Bangladesh garment factory.

• Bangladesh collapse search over; death toll is 1,127

  Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127.

• Bangladesh to raise garment workers' minimum wages

  Bangladesh has set up a panel to raise the minimum wage for millions of garment workers, a minister said on Sunday, as tens of thousands protested over poor conditions highlighted by a series of disasters.

• Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll rises to 1125

  The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose to 1,125 on Sunday after 15 more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, 19 days after the disaster struck.

• Bangladesh miracle survivor 'drank rainwater': army

  Bangladeshi officials gave the first account Saturday of how a "miracle" survivor pulled from a collapsed building managed to emerge alive 17 days after the disaster and hailed her indomitable spirit.

• Joy, disbelief as relatives embrace rescued Bangladesh factory worker

  As hope faded of finding any more survivors of Bangladesh's factory collapse, Reshma Begum's family cherished one modest prayer: that hers would be the next body to be excavated from the rubble so they could at least give her a decent burial.

• Survivor found, 17 days after Bangladesh building collapse: fire chief

  A woman was pulled alive on Friday from the ruins of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh more than 16 days after it collapsed and killed over 1,000 people, live television footage showed.

• Bangladesh shuts 18 garment factories after disaster

  Bangladesh has shut down 18 garment plants for safety reasons after a building housing five garment factories collapsed last month and killed more than 800 people, a minister said on Wednesday.

• Bangladesh building collapse: death toll crosses 800, say officials

  The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster exceeded 800 on Wednesday as rescuers pulled out dozens more bodies from the rubble of a nine-storey building that collapsed outside Dhaka last month.

• Death toll in Bangladesh building collapse crosses 750, say officials

  The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh passed 750 on Wednesday after a dozen more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, a fortnight after the disaster.