Posted on 04/24/2013 12:19:01 PM PDT by Hojczyk
At least 113 workers were killed and hundreds more injured when an eight-storey complex, housing a factory that supplies Primark, collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital.
As early as Tuesday, cracks were noticed in the structure of the building. Bangladesh’s Industrial Police confirmed they had ordered the evacuation of Rana Plaza, but thousands of people nonetheless reported for work on Wednesday. Some said they returned to the factories on pain of dismissal after engineers working for the building’s owner inspected the structure and pronounced it safe. Some workers returned to their sewing machines just an hour before the whiole complex collapsed.
In Wednesday’s incident, all the upper floors of Rana Plaza collapsed, leaving only the ground floor intact. Four garment factories occupied six of the eight floors. New Wave Style, the largest of the factories, lists international retailers like Benetton along with British high street names like Primark, Matalan and Bonmarche among its main buyers.
Mohammed Sohel Rana, the building’s owner and a local leader of the youth wing of the ruling Awami League, said the cracks had not seemed serious.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“...said the cracks had not seemed serious.”
Sure, they’ll buff right out after a little Spackle.
Muzzies aren’t very bright.
RIP.
They should have broken cadence on those sewing machines
Is this some kind of dry British ‘humor’?
Headline says ‘dozens’ dead, the article said at least 113 workers killed.
Death by resonance?
Not very good builders, either.
113 is more than one dozen, hence ‘dozens.’
113 is at least 9 dozen, so dozens (plural) isn’t improper.
“Scoers” would have been better. But who knows what that means any more?
“SCORES”
“... engineers working for the building’s owner inspected the structure and pronounced it safe.”
Too bad they weren’t in there when it collapsed.
After all, allah willed it. Who is man to stop it.
Death by shoddy construction.
Yes and one of the companies that contracted out to them was Benetton, who is in the forefront of pushing acceptance of sodomites on society.
Those racists!
Oh. Well then this was actually a good thing. phew!
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