Bangladesh mourns anniversary of garment factory disaster

Source: AP

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Survivors and relatives of victims of a garment factory collapse in Bangladesh marched Friday to demand better compensation on the second anniversary of the disaster that killed more than 1,100 people.

Rana Plaza, an illegally constructed building outside Dhaka, housed five garment factories when it collapsed in 2013. The accident was Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster.

Activists joined the march as relatives laid flowers at a memorial built at the site of the collapse, which killed 1,127 people and injuring about 2,500.

Sofura Khatun, whose daughter Rasheda Begum was killed in the accident, wept as she remembered the tragedy.

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Bangladeshi family members of victims of Rana Plaza building collapse, offer floral garlands to a monument erected in memory of the victims as they gather at the spot of the accident on its second anniversary in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 24, 2015. Bangladesh suffered its worst industrial disaster when Rana Plaza, an illegally built, multistoried building located outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh\'s capital, collapsed in 2013 killing 1,127 people and injuring about 2,500. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

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