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BANGLADESHI POLICE HAVE charged the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex with murder over the 2013 building collapse that killed more than 1,100 people.
Factory owner Sohel Rana, 35, is among the 41 people facing the death penalty if they are convicted for the developing country’s worst-ever industrial disaster.
Those charged also include Rana’s parents, who jointly owned the building, and the mayor and councillors of the town in which it was built.
Police also called for arrest warrants to be issued for six government officials who absconded before they could be brought in.
Lead investigator Bijoy Krishna said all of those charged had “collective responsibility” for killing over 1,100 innocent people who died under the rubble.
“Rana Plaza was built flouting construction rules and it was extended without proper structural changes. And when it was turned into a factory complex, it was loaded with heavy machinery such as a generator. No wonder the building collapsed,” he said.
That illegal extension violating all construction (regulations) was the seed of this massive disaster.”
Western fashion
Primark, which trades as Penneys in Ireland, was one of several western fashion chains which had clothes made at Rana Plaza before the disaster. Other brands included Italian label Benetton and Spain’s Mango.
Last year the company began paying $10 million in compensation to both surviving workers and family members of those killed in the factory collapse, on top of emergency food and aid it earlier promised.
Survivors have recounted how they had been forced to enter the compound on the day of the disaster despite complaints that cracks were appearing in the walls.
Rana and 17 others were also charged with breaking building codes for extending the six-storey building, which was approved for use as a shopping centre, into a nine-storey factory.
- With AFP
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God love his family.
PLEASE be careful on the roads boys and girls!!!!!
Rip, god bless his family losing a loved one so close to Christmas.
So here is a question – with the new ‘Go Safe’ mobile video vans they claim they are making the roads safer. So why is it the death tolls on the roads are still increasing? Statistically speaking there were less deaths BEFORE they started putting those speed camera vans on the streets. Why are we still throwing money down that rabbit hole if it is not making us any safer and is only acting as a new tax?
Because it is only a tax dressed up under the guise of road safety
I know some really bad corners where the signage is completely inadequate. Eg. Longford to Ballymahon road there’s a 90deg bend just before the t junction to turn left for ballymahon. N.I. have huge signs for such corners. I’ll never understand why they didnt cut the corner and striagthen the road a bit in Buttevant Co.Cork. More cars have turned over in that tight bend that folds back on itself than you could shake a stick at.
Why would you shake a stick at overturned cars?
It’s not excessive speed but driving at inappropiate speed is the main cause of speed related crashes.
This all stick and no carrot approach of the Minister and the RSA is clearly not working. There is no evidence published of drink driving fatalities ever. Pls publish the stats showing how many fatalities due to driving with 50,80, 100, and over blood alcohol levels. What really irks me is that over 99% of fatalities involve excess speed. Why not switch this annual witch hunt to a speed hunt and impose a nation wide 80Klms per hour speed limit on all roads and 100Klms for motorways with double/triple fines for all excess speed offences for this annual Christmas road traffic act compliance experiment.
Kev. Speeding drivers cause a very small percentage of car accidents
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