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The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000. In the year before the collapse, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed several hundred workers. About the Author.
The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000. In the year before the collapse, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed several hundred workers.
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