Rebuilding Lives After a Factory Collapse in Bangladesh – NYTimes.com

Rebuilding Lives After a Factory Collapse in Bangladesh

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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.