[Rebuilding Lives After a Factory Collapse in Bangladesh](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/rebuilding-lives-after-a-factory-collapse-in-bangladesh/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0#)

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An hour after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Abir Abdullah got to the scene unsure where to begin taking pictures. More than a thousand people had died and hundreds more were trapped alive in the rubble. Injured workers were screaming and crying all around him as rescue workers pulled bodies from the debris.