Hunt continues for survivors of Bangladesh building collapse_美文

Hunt continues for survivors of Bangladesh building collapse

Forty more people have been rescued alive from a room inside a collapsed garment factory, an army spokesman said on Thursday night.

The accident has once again highlighted the safety problems and poor working conditions that plague the nation's textile industry, the world's second-biggest clothing exporter supplying global retailers.

In November, a blaze at a factory making apparel for Wal-Mart and other Western labels in Dhaka left 112 people dead, with survivors describing how fire exits were kept locked by site managers.

Tessel Pauli, a spokeswoman for the Amsterdam-based Clean Clothes Campaign, said the latest disaster was "symptomatic" of problems in Bangladesh, where foreign buyers are accused of jeopardizing safety in their search for profit.

"These accidents represent a failure of these brands to make safety a priority. They know what needs to be done and they are not doing it," Pauli said.

Bangladeshi unions and rights activists have also reacted furiously, calling for an end to the impunity the country's garment manufacturers enjoy.

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Nelly Min is an editor at China Daily with more than 10 years of experience as a newspaper editor and photographer. She has worked at major newspapers in the U.S., including the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press. She is also fluent in Korean.