The owner of the factory building that collapsed last Wednesday in Bangladesh’s capital,
Dhaka, killing hundreds of people, has been arrested by soldiers from the
country’s Rapid Action Battalion at the border with India.
Five other people have also been detained - 3 owners of clothes factories
that were housed in the Rana Plaza and 2 engineers. Two more survivors have been pulled from the
rubble today, but altogether about 360 people are known to have died.
Police said officials had ordered an evacuation of the block on Tuesday
after cracks appeared, but that the factories ignored them, while municipal engineers
are reported to have declared the building safe the day before it collapsed.
Bangladesh has one of the biggest clothing industries in the world,
providing cheap products for well-know Western retailers, but it has been
widely criticised for low pay and dangerous conditions.
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