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Published: 22 Apr 2021 07:47 PM BdST
Updated: 22 Apr 2021 07:47 PM BdST A protest in Dhaka on the sixth anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse, on April 24, 2018. The New York Times
Labour unions and NGOs are calling for a binding international safety agreement that would guarantee the safety of factory workers to mark the eighth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster. );
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In a statement, the Clean Clothes Campaign, or CCC, has called for people to commemorate the tragedy by preventing a similar disaster from occurring in the future.
As many as 1,135 people were killed and over 2,500 injured after Rana Plaza, an eight-storey building housing five garment factories in Savar, collapsed on Apr 24, 2013.
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Confusion arose as fathers names of Mintu and Ashraf are similar, he said.
While Mintu is the son of late Mohar Ali Mollah of Benapole s Dighirpar area, Ashraf s late father s name is Mohar Ali, also of Dighirpar area.
Mintu had earlier informed the jail authorities about this, but no one paid any heed to it. Last Saturday, two Deputy Secretaries of the Ministry of Law visited Jashore Central Jail and Mintu complained to them as well.
Subsequently a probe was ordered. The investigation by BLAST and Legal Aid found that the case was that of a mistaken identity. Finally, Mintu was released on Thursday.
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Expendable lives
How many more have to die in road accidents in Bangladesh before we act?
Only four days ago, four people were killed in Bogura when a bus from Dhaka crushed a CNG-run autorickshaw. Photo: Star
When we look at newspaper reports, what is the most common cause of mortality among Bangladeshis that we find? According to reports published in
The Daily Star, road accidents killed at least 4,284 people and injured 9,112 others in 2017, while the figures were 3,412 and 8,572 respectively in 2016. The numbers of accidents and deaths increased by 15.82 percent and 25.56 percent respectively in 2017 compared to 2016.
A recent addition to these casualties is my paternal uncle, who lost his life while trying to cross a busy highway in the middle of the night. There are three worrisome aspects that have surfaced after his demise that are directly relatable to this whole affair of road accidents. The first one is that he did not use an over-bridge, which was available exactly