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Bangladesh building collapse kills over 400

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Pardus

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Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse/index.html
Video:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/04/2013424513260353.html
News24 reports 123 dead:
http://www.news24.com/World/News/123-dead-in-Bangladesh-building-collapse-20130424

EDIT:
Death toll from Bangladesh building collapse climbs above 400
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse/index.html?hpt=hp_t2


(CNN) -- An eight-story building collapsed Wednesday morning on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, killing at least 80 people and injuring hundreds, the national news agency reported.

"Many more people, dead or alive, are still trapped inside," the fire service director general, Brig. Gen. Ali Ahmed Khan, told reporters, according to the national news agency, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.

Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said army troops, fire service personnel, police and Rapid Action Battalion troops had been mobilized to the site on the outskirts of Dhaka.

"The fact is we don't know yet how many people were killed actually ... but I can tell you the building was not built in compliance with the (safety) rules and regulations," Alamgir said.

"Stern legal actions will be taken against the people who built the structure defying the codes or laws."

Work was proceeding slowly in order to avoid causing a further collapse, said Maj. Gen. Abul Hassan Sarwardy, commander of the army's Savar-based 9th Division.

Six hundred people had been taken to hospitals in Savar and Dhaka, and to a nearby military hospital, and 30 medical teams and other groups of doctors and paramedics were treating the injured at tents erected on the scene.

The commercial building housed three garment units, a branch of a bank and some 300 shops, the national news agency reported.

Video showed two women garment workers pleading to be rescued. "Please retrieve us ... save my life," said a woman who identified herself as Sakhina.

A doctor at Enam Hospital said a number of the victims had lost their hands, arms or legs.

A national day of mourning was set for Thursday.

The last major building collapse in the country occurred in 2005, when more than 70 people were killed in a garment factory collapse in the same area, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported.

A fire at a clothing factory in a suburb of Dhaka last November killed at least 112 people.

Garments make up 80% of Bangladesh's $24 billion of exports.

The country has about 4,500 garment factories, where workers make clothes for brands including Tesco, Walmart, JC Penney, Kohl's and Carrefour.
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JulesMaximus said:
I bet it was right wing tea party activists who are responsible.
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Well, funny you say that.

The 'market' puts competitive pressure on people to cut more and more costs and have less safety - short of being held accountable enough to discourage them from doing that, which they can get rid of as well by passing low liabilty laws and 'tort reform' type policies making there little cost to them.

That makes this a good area for governemnt to protect the public interest, with good requirements for building standards, and inspections to ensure compliance.

Now, which political faction is made up of spoiled four year old mentality that hates all taxes and wants to cut every government activity in short-sighted policies?

Ya, the one you named.

Take the explostion in West, TX. Heart of the low-regulation, 'screw you, government' mentality.

Many more were killed in that than by the Boston bombers, but which got more attention?

There was 1,300 times the amount of the explosive gas that would trigger a federal inspection - yet it hadn't been inspected in decades. It was built next to schools and a nursing home - can't have the governemnt telling you what to do and what's safe. It was 100 times the amount of nitrate used in the Oklahoma terrorist bombing.

A commentator noted, everyone knows the names of the Boston bombers - we're learning every detail about them across the nation.

What is the name of the owner of the exploded facility in Texas, who allowed that to happen?

So, in a sense, yes, the fanatical, irrational anti-government, anti-tax ideologues you mentioned are largely responsible for these sorts of things, here at least.

In the third world, there can be more of other things - poverty, corruption and so on, excuses we have less of.
 
I love to see all those regular old people in there, risking their own lives and limbs to save others. Here no one would go near it immediately after it fell, and once LE showed up it would be cordoned off and it would become illegal to go in and help people.
 
The news story on tv said workers didn't want to go into the building, but managers assured them that "all was OK." An hour later...
 
Tweak155 said:
And you should avoid being presumptuous. If you didn't understand what I said in regards to the story that is your own pitfall.
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you said you would like to think there would be warning signs on a building about to collapse, and according to the article, there were warning signs.

Several garment workers told CNN that a crack that appeared Tuesday on the building's 7th floor had led managers of garment workers to order them not to report to work on Wednesday.
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Employees of the Savar branch of BRAC Bank were evacuated Tuesday after the crack was detected and were ordered not to show up on Wednesday, the national news agency, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, reported, citing a news statement from the bank.
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so please elaborate on how i misunderstood what you said, since it isn't clear.
 
purbeast0 said:
you said you would like to think there would be warning signs on a building about to collapse, and according to the article, there were warning signs.



or



so please elaborate on how i misunderstood what you said, since it isn't clear.
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I clarified further down:

Tweak155 said:
I'm thinking signs even untrained eyes can detect. Something so people can self preserve.
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If you need further explanation just let me know. Being a prick won't get you anywhere in life.
 
http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/ar...d-building-captured-in-Bangladesh-4465414.php

Owner caught trying to flee India.

Hasina had ordered the arrest of building owner Rana, who is a small-time political operative from her Awami League party's youth wing. He was brought back by helicopter from the border town to the capital, Dhaka, where he is expected to be charged with negligence on Monday.
He had permission to build a 5-story building but added three more illegally. He last appeared in public Tuesday in front of the Rana Plaza after huge cracks appeared in the building.
Witnesses said Rana assured tenants that the building was safe. Police, however, ordered an evacuation. A bank and some first-floor shops closed, but managers of the garment factories on the upper floors told workers to continue their shifts.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/ar...-Bangladesh-tragedy-4465414.php#ixzz2RpkrwChW
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I stopped being shocked after the toll went over 600... Now it just seems like a number, which is really sad.

Think a few of my Banana Republic items are from Bangladesh.
 
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