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2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse
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Building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse 11 April 2005 00:45 am BST (UTC+06:00) Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh Spectrum garment factory collapse ~80>https://www.cleanclothes.org/news/2013/04/11/spectrum-collapse-eight-years-on-and-still-little-action-on-safety/ Spectrum collapse: eight years on and still little action on safety Davelaar Geertjan Clean Cloths Campaign 2013-04-11 live https://web.archive.org/web/20160506052222/http://www.cleanclothes.org/news/2013/04/11/spectrum-collapse-eight-years-on-and-still-little-action-on-safety/ 2016-05-06 2016-10-19 73Buerk Roland Bail denied over factory collapse http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4529043.stm 19 October 2016 BBC News 9 May 2005
The 2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse or Spectrum garment factory collapse was a structural failure that occurred on Monday, 11 April 2005 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where a nine-story commercial building collapsed.https://cleanclothes.org/news/2005/04/01/factory-collapsed-bangladeshi-garment-workers-buried-alive Factory collapsed – Bangladeshi Garment Workers Buried Alive Clean Cloths Campaign Davelaar Geertjan 2005-04-01 live https://web.archive.org/web/20160403172543/http://www.cleanclothes.org/news/2005/04/01/factory-collapsed-bangladeshi-garment-workers-buried-alive 2016-04-03 2016-10-19 Islam Shariful Ashraf Shamim 9-storey Garment Building Crumbles at Savar http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/04/12/d5041201011.htm 19 October 2016 The Daily Star 12 April 2005 19 October 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161019143731/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/04/12/d5041201011.htm dead The site is located about 30 km northwest of Dhaka. The explosion of a boiler on the ground floor triggered the collapse. The owner of the building was Shahriar Sayeed Husain, a Bangladeshi businessman. He is married to Farah Mahbub, a judge of Bangladesh High Court.Kona Khatune Jannat 7 September 2004 bn:সর্বকনিষ্ঠ এডিশনাল বিচারপতি ফারাহ মাহবুব Bengali Youngest Additional Justice Farah Mahbub Daily Inqilab Dhaka
See also
Bangladesh
2025 Dhaka garment factory fire
2012 Dhaka garment factory fire
Pakistan garment factory fires (2012)
2013 Savar building collapse – another garment factory collapse in Dhaka
Thane building collapse (2013)
Accord on Factory and Building Safety in Bangladesh
Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety
References
Further reading
Spectrum collapse https://web.archive.org/web/20220606192502/https://cleanclothes.org/@@search?Subject:list=Spectrum 6 June 2022 related news on Clean Cloths Campaign.
External links
Interviews with workers, survivors on 1 June 2005
Bangladesh
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