Murder suits filed in building collapse
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May 6, 2013, Monday
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THE wife of a Bangladeshi garment worker who was killed when a building collapsed filed a murder complaint against the building's owner yesterday as the death toll from the country's worst industrial disaster climbed to 622.
Murder complaints were also filed against the owner of one of the garment factories inside the building and a municipal engineer in Dhaka, where the factory was located.
The owner of the Rana Plaza building, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was arrested after a four-day hunt as he appeared to be trying to flee across the border to India. He is one of nine people being held in connection with the April 24 disaster, which the government has blamed on the building's faulty, illegal construction.
Rana and the others in police custody could face the death penalty if found guilty of murder or mass manslaughter. None of the accused has commented publicly on the accusation that they were to blame.
Hundreds of relatives again gathered at the site of the disaster yesterday, some holding up photographs of family members. A teenage girl broke down in tears after she recognized the body of her mother by her dress, after she was brought from the ruins.
Rescue workers have found it increasingly difficult to identify decomposing bodies and are using ID cards found on them or even their mobile phones to do so.
Murder complaints were also filed against the owner of one of the garment factories inside the building and a municipal engineer in Dhaka, where the factory was located.
The owner of the Rana Plaza building, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was arrested after a four-day hunt as he appeared to be trying to flee across the border to India. He is one of nine people being held in connection with the April 24 disaster, which the government has blamed on the building's faulty, illegal construction.
Rana and the others in police custody could face the death penalty if found guilty of murder or mass manslaughter. None of the accused has commented publicly on the accusation that they were to blame.
Hundreds of relatives again gathered at the site of the disaster yesterday, some holding up photographs of family members. A teenage girl broke down in tears after she recognized the body of her mother by her dress, after she was brought from the ruins.
Rescue workers have found it increasingly difficult to identify decomposing bodies and are using ID cards found on them or even their mobile phones to do so.
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