Bangladesh Factory owner and others charged with murder

BBC: Police in Bangladesh have charged the owner of the Rana Plaza complex with murder over the building’s collapse in 2013, killing more than 1,100 people.

Sohel Rana and more than a dozen government officials are among 42 people charged with murder.

They are accused of ignoring warnings not to allow workers into the building the day before it collapsed… (more)

EDITOR: Tragedies with a number of people dying as a result of building collapse or fire are virtually always the result of criminal negligence or worse on the part of the builder, landlord, or operator.

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