2016-07-18 16:23:00

Bangladeshi court indicts 41 in Rana Plaza tragedy


A Bangladeshi court has indicted 41 people for murder in the 2013 deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a building that housed five garment factories outside the capital.  District Judge S.M. Kuddus Zaman announced Monday that the trial in the Rana Plaza collapse will begin Sept. 18.   Masud Rana, who owned the building outside Dhaka, and 33 other people pleaded not guilty when the charges against them were read out in court.   Another seven are accused of absconding.  If convicted, the defendants could face up to death penalty.  A police report submitted to the court called the deaths a ``mass killing.''

Regarded as one of the world’s worst industrial disasters, the Rana Plaza tragedy highlighted appalling ‎safety ‎problems and factory workers’ rights in the country's US$25-billion garment industry, the ‎world's second-largest after China's, that supplies garments to international companies.  (Source: AP) 








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