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Bangladeshi Garment Factory Collapse

As It Happens

April 24, 2013

Season 2013, Episode 300116237

07:31

More than 80 people are dead after a garment factory building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed. Others are still trapped inside. Kalpona Akter is the head of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.

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