Hundreds of garment factories in a Bangladesh manufacturing hub reopened today, days after they were closed down due to unrest sparked by the country's worst industrial tragedy, employers said.
At least 12 people were killed on Thursday as cyclonic storm ‘Mahasen’ battered Bangladesh’s southwestern coastlines, damaging thousands of thatched houses and forcing evacuation of over one million people from low-lying areas.
Meteorological officials say Cyclone Mahasen weakened significantly as it passed over Bangladesh and missed major population centers.
The cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' on Thursday hit Bangladesh's southern Patuakhali coast with wind speed up to 90 kilometers per hour, killing one person, officials said.
A cyclone ripped into the Bangladeshi coast Thursday as hundreds of thousands of people hunkered down in evacuation shelters, including in a region of Myanmar torn by communal unrest.
Three days after her miraculous rescue from the rubbles of the collapsed eight-storey building in Savar, the 19-year-old Bangladeshi girl today declared that she "will never again work in a garment factory".
Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended on Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127.
The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh rose to 1,125 today after 15 more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, 19 days after the disaster struck.
Maritime ports in Bangladesh were today advised to take adequate precautionary measures as cyclone Mahasen, originating in the southeast Bay of Bengal, moved slightly towards the northwest.
Bangladesh has set up a panel to raise the minimum wage for millions of garment workers, a minister said today, as tens of thousands protested over poor conditions highlighted by a series of disasters.
A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a Bangladesh hospital on Saturday, but was in generally good condition, according to her doctors.
Bangladeshi officials gave the first account today of how a "miracle" survivor pulled from a collapsed building managed to emerge alive 17 days after the disaster and hailed her indomitable spirit.
Bangladeshi doctors treating a "miracle" survivor pulled from ruins of a collapsed building after 17 days said Saturday she was doing "great" and had been reunited with her family.
Even amid the euphoria over finding a woman alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago, rescuers today returned to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieving decomposing bodies.
Rescue workers in Bangladesh said today they found a female survivor buried amid the wreckage of a garment factory building that collapsed 17 days ago and killed more than 1,000.