Building Collaspes in Bangladesh

On Wednesday in Bangladesh a building collapsed killing hundreds of people. Thursday rescuers searched for survivors while thousands went to the streets to protest lax safety conditions. On Thursday night the death toll reached to a number of 244 people, while about 2,013 people have been rescued. On Wednesday morning the eight-story building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka collapsed. In the building there were about 2,500 workers who were employed, a bank, and approximately 300 shops.  On Tuesday many of the workers in the building shared their concern about the building when many cracks began to appear.  Survivors have claimed that the factory owners told the building was safe and ordered them to report back to work. The owners of the building and of the factories are ordered to appear in court on April 30. Of the thousands who went to the streets to protest they carried black flags, some set fires, and others broke windows as they passed trucks. Ninety percent of the building are not meeting the safety regulations and rules and are not built according to code. Flags nationwide were being raised at half-staff Thursday after the government declared it a national day of mourning. The cause of the collapsing building is still unknown.  

My response to this article was that I felt kind of mad because I think it’s ridiculous that the owners of the building told workers who discovered the cracks on Tuesday that it was no big deal and that the building met safety regulations and rules.  It also stated that many workers who knew about the cracks were too scared to get fired so that why they still arrived to work. I think it’s just sad that the owners rather risk lives than spend money not having people working and spending money to have the building fixed.

(WC 303)

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse/index.html?hpt=wo_c2