Bangladesh Fire Charges
December 22, 2013 by staff
Bangladesh Fire Charges, Thirteen people, including the two owners, have been charged over a factory fire in Bangladesh in November 2012 that killed more than 100 people.
Police said they had charged Delwar Hossain and his wife, as well as security guards and managers, over the blaze at the Tazreen factory in Dhaka.
It was the country’s deadliest garment factory fire. In April 2013 the Rana Plaza factory collapsed killing 1,135.
Bangladesh has since pledged to improve conditions at its garment factories.
“Delwar and his wife Mahmuda Akter… and 11 others have been charged with death due to negligence,” police investigator AKM Mohsinuzzaman Khan told the AFP news agency.
The multi-floor Tazreen Fashion factory, in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of the capital, supplied clothes to a variety of Western retailers including US giant Walmart.
The fire sparked protests from thousands of workers who claimed the building had been unsafe to work in; Delwar Hossain denied the allegations.
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