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2013 Savar building collapse facts for kids

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The 2013 Savar building collapse was an incident on 24 April 2013. An eight-story building, the Rana Plaza, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district near Dhaka, Bangladesh. 1129 people died. Another one thousand or more received injuries of varying levels.

The building contained clothing factories, other shops and a bank. It collapsed during the morning rush hour. Warnings to avoid using the building because of cracking appearing the day before were ignored, resulting in a tragedy. This was thought to be the worst industrial accident in the history of Bangladesh.

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  • Savar building 2013

    The location of Savar (red marker), the site of the building collapse, in relation to Dhaka.

  • Rana Plaza

    Photo of Rana Plaza taken one year before the collapse.

  • 2013 savar building collapse - survivor

    Rescuers carrying out one of the survivors from the collapsed building

  • 2013 savar building collapse - missing photos 01

    Board with photos of missing people posted by relatives

  • Helping Khaleda, one of the survivors of Rana Plaza (14008308964)

    A survivor of the building collapse.

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Colapso de un edificio en Savar en 2013 para niños

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