Friday, January 7, 2011

T-Shirt Made in Bangladesh

Check your collar:

"Dozens die in Bangladesh T-shirt factory fire" by Associated Press / December 15, 2010

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Dozens of people were killed yesterday when a devastating blaze raced through a garment factory near Bangladesh’s capital that supplies major multinationals such as Gap and JCPenney.... 

Interior Minister Shahara Khatun said after visiting the site that her ministry would probe whether it was related to recent violent protests at textile factories over wages.

Monir Hossain, a local journalist at the scene, said the blaze broke out on the two upper floors during lunch break. A gate on a stairwell was locked, trapping people inside the factory.... 

It is hard to imagine anything more horrible than consumption by fire because of the inability to escape. 

Locked in the factory, where they? 

Then it is a damn prison!

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Looks like the story got locked down, too.

Also see: Your Bangladeshi Brief

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