2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse explained
| 2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse |
| Date: | 11 April 2005 |
| Time: | 00:45 am BST |
| Place: | Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh |
| Also Known As: | Spectrum garment factory collapse |
| Reported Injuries: | ~80>[1] |
| Reported Death(S): | 73[2] |
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]
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- Web site: Spectrum collapse: eight years on and still little action on safety . Davelaar . Geertjan . Clean Cloths Campaign . 2013-04-11 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506052222/http://www.cleanclothes.org/news/2013/04/11/spectrum-collapse-eight-years-on-and-still-little-action-on-safety/ . 2016-05-06 . 2016-10-19 .
- News: Buerk. Roland. Bail denied over factory collapse. 19 October 2016. BBC News. 9 May 2005.
- Web site: Factory collapsed - Bangladeshi Garment Workers Buried Alive . Clean Cloths Campaign . Davelaar . Geertjan . 2005-04-01 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160403172543/http://www.cleanclothes.org/news/2005/04/01/factory-collapsed-bangladeshi-garment-workers-buried-alive . 2016-04-03 . 2016-10-19 .
- News: Islam. Shariful. Ashraf. Shamim. 9-storey Garment Building Crumbles at Savar. 19 October 2016. The Daily Star. 12 April 2005.
- News: Kona . Khatune Jannat . 7 September 2004 . bn:সর্বকনিষ্ঠ এডিশনাল বিচারপতি ফারাহ মাহবুব . Bengali . Youngest Additional Justice Farah Mahbub . . Dhaka.
