2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse

2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse
Date	11 April 2005
Time	00:45 am BST (UTC+06:00)
Location	Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh
Also known as	Spectrum garment factory collapse
Deaths	73
Non-fatal injuries	~80>

The 2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse or Spectrum garment factory collapse was a structural failure that occurred on Monday, 11 April 2005 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where a nine-story commercial building collapsed.^[3]^[4] The site is located about 30 km northwest of Dhaka. The explosion of a boiler on the ground floor triggered the collapse. The owner of the building was Shahriar Sayeed Husain, a Bangladeshi businessman. He is married to Farah Mahbub, a judge of Bangladesh High Court.^[5]

References

^ Buerk, Roland (9 May 2005). "Bail denied over factory collapse". BBC News. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
^ Davelaar, Geertjan (11 April 2013). "Spectrum collapse: eight years on and still little action on safety". Clean Cloths Campaign. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
^ Davelaar, Geertjan (1 April 2005). "Factory collapsed - Bangladeshi Garment Workers Buried Alive". Clean Cloths Campaign. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
^ Islam, Shariful; Ashraf, Shamim (12 April 2005). "9-storey Garment Building Crumbles at Savar". The Daily Star. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
^ Kona, Khatune Jannat (7 September 2004). সর্বকনিষ্ঠ এডিশনাল বিচারপতি ফারাহ মাহবুব [Youngest Additional Justice Farah Mahbub]. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali). Dhaka.

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Interviews with workers, survivors on 1 June 2005

[1] Buerk, Roland (9 May 2005). "Bail denied over factory collapse". BBC News. Retrieved 19 October 2016.

[cleanclothes_2013-04-11-2] Davelaar, Geertjan (11 April 2013). "Spectrum collapse: eight years on and still little action on safety". Clean Cloths Campaign. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.

[cleanclothes_2005-04-01-3] Davelaar, Geertjan (1 April 2005). "Factory collapsed - Bangladeshi Garment Workers Buried Alive". Clean Cloths Campaign. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.

[4] Islam, Shariful; Ashraf, Shamim (12 April 2005). "9-storey Garment Building Crumbles at Savar". The Daily Star. Retrieved 19 October 2016.

[Inqilab-5] Kona, Khatune Jannat (7 September 2004). সর্বকনিষ্ঠ এডিশনাল বিচারপতি ফারাহ মাহবুব [Youngest Additional Justice Farah Mahbub]. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali). Dhaka.

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