Search results for ‘Bangladesh’
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Bangladesh rescuers find survivor in factory wreckage
A woman buried in the wreckage of the collapsed garment factory building in Bangladesh for 17 days, says she thought she would never see daylight again.
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Eight die in Bangladesh factory fire
At least eight people die at a fire in a garment factory in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as officials confirm that last month’s factory collapse has killed 912 people.
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Bangladesh violence: at least 20 killed
Islamist hardliners demanding an anti-blasphemy law in Bangladesh have fought running battles with police in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere, killing at least 20 people.
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Bangladesh marks May Day with safety demands
Thousands of workers march through Bangladesh’s capital on May Day demanding safety at work after the collapse of a factory building which has left at least 400 people dead, and injured 2,500.
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More Bangladesh building collapse survivors ‘unlikely’
Rescue officials in Bangladesh say they are unlikely to find any more survivors in the rubble of a factory building and are now using heavy cranes to lift concrete blocks off the wreckage.
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Fire breaks out in Bangladesh factory wreckage
Rescuers battling to free survivors from the rubble in Dhaka are forced to stop as smoke pours from the shattered concrete.
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Four arrests made in Bangladesh factory collapse
Two factory bosses and two engineers are arrested in Bangladesh after the collapse of a low-cost garment factory killed 352 earlier this week, with around 900 people still missing.
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Bangladesh building collapse: death toll likely to rise
Protests erupt in Bangladesh as the death toll from the collapse of a building supplying western retailers rises above 230. Rescuers fear many more bodies could still be trapped.
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Bangladesh building collapse: what price fast fashion?
As the garments industry in Bangladesh suffers yet another fatal disaster costing hundreds of lives, Channel 4 News examines why such incidents keep on occurring, and the role of western fashion.
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Collapsed Bangladeshi factory supplies Primark, 96 dead
Bosses at the Primark clothing chain say they are “shocked and saddened” as 96 people are killed and hundreds injured in an eight-storey building in Bangladesh containing garment suppliers.
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Over 100 die in Bangladesh factory fire
Fire sweeps through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital killing more than 100 people, in the country’s worst-ever factory blaze.
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Floods and landslides kill at least 70 in Bangladesh
Days of torrential monsoon rains have caused flash floods and landslides in Bangladesh. Police and officials say at least 70 people have been killed and around 200,000 stranded.
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Dancer Akram Khan returns to Bangladeshi roots
Akram Khan is one of the biggest names on the international dance circuit. Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain asks Khan why he has returned to his Bangladeshi roots for his latest work.
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United Arab Emirates receives surprise COP28 backing from under-threat island nation Maldives
Western politicians have called for the UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber to be removed from the position amid fears that his day job, running a fossil fuel giant, leaves him hopelessly compromised.
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Infected blood scandal: family claim racial stereotyping contributed to mother’s death
When Sultana Chowdhury gave birth in 1987, she needed a blood transfusion. The blood she was given was infected with Hepatitis C – and she became a victim of what’s described as one of the worst treatment disasters in the history of the NHS.
