The factory outside the capital, Dhaka, is owned by Tazreen Fashions Ltd., a subsidiary of the Tuba Group, which makes products for Wal-Mart and other companies in the U.S. and Europe.
Firefighters recovered at least 100 bodies from the factory and 12 more people died at hospitals after jumping from the building to escape, Maj. Mohammad Mahbub, fire department operations director, told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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And where were the fire department and building inspectors? Paid off by the owners, of course, and by a lot more than the dollar-a-day employees who died for profit.
This is awful! So close to the holidays. Shortage of items will make the prices go up.
Considering WalMart posted record sales last weekend it seems unlikely America is going to develop a conscience regarding the human cost of our cheap goods.
10:45, I hope that was a stab at our buy-cheap-crap culture and not your true feelings.
Really, you really think they bother with building inspectors and fire marshals in Bangladesh?
1:15 You mean those pesty regulations that hold us all back here?
this sounds a lot like the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911 (New York)
Where was Ali during all this?
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