Fugitive owner of collapsed Bangladeshi factory arrested
Published: 2013 April 28 16:30:57 (4636 Views)
The fugitive owner of the Bangladeshi factory complex which collapsed, killing at least 360 people, was arrested today on the border with India.
Mohammed Sohel Rana had been in hiding since Wednesday's disaster at the Rana Plaza, in Savar in the suburbs of the capital Dhaka.
However, government minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak announced this morning that he had been captured a day after factory bosses Mahbubur Rahman Tapas and Balzul Samad Adnan gave themselves up and Bazlus Samad was arrested.
Mohammed Sohel Rana, the fugitive owner of an illegally-constructed building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh.
Rana was arrested near the land border in Benapole in western Bangladesh, just as he was about to flee into India's West Bengal state, said Jahangir Kabir Nanak, junior minister for local government.
Mr Nanak added that Rana was caught in Benapole, on the border with India's West Bengal state and officers were taking him back to the Bangladeshi capital in a helicopter.
Rana is accused of having illegally added three floors to the five-storey complex and of general negligence over the safety of the complex.
His arrest by the Rapid Action Battalion was greeted with huge cheers as it was announced on loudspeakers at the factory block.
Meanwhile, rescue workers are desperately toiling to save nine people they have found amid the rubble.
As the likelihood of finding any more survivors from the wreckage grows slimmer by the hour, a group of rescuers are using light machinery to try and save the panic-stricken factory staff.
One ray of hope to emerge from the disaster came from the news that a female worker had given birth to a healthy baby boy while she was trapped under rubble.
A rescuer named Didar Hossain said she had been rescued six hours after the complex collapsed.
'She gave birth while inside the building. She was about 26 or 27 years old,' he said.
'When we found her she said "Please save my baby first".
'The baby was crying. The umbilical cord was still there.
Garment workers took to the streets of Dhakar yesterday to vent their fury at the disaster and at the terrible working conditions of the factory staff.
There was also a protest outside the Marble Arch branch of Primark, which has clothes made in the Rana Plaza, calling for the victims' families to be given compensation.
More than 900 workers remain unaccounted for.
- Metro
Mohammed Sohel Rana had been in hiding since Wednesday's disaster at the Rana Plaza, in Savar in the suburbs of the capital Dhaka.
However, government minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak announced this morning that he had been captured a day after factory bosses Mahbubur Rahman Tapas and Balzul Samad Adnan gave themselves up and Bazlus Samad was arrested.
Mohammed Sohel Rana, the fugitive owner of an illegally-constructed building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh.
Rana was arrested near the land border in Benapole in western Bangladesh, just as he was about to flee into India's West Bengal state, said Jahangir Kabir Nanak, junior minister for local government.
Mr Nanak added that Rana was caught in Benapole, on the border with India's West Bengal state and officers were taking him back to the Bangladeshi capital in a helicopter.
Rana is accused of having illegally added three floors to the five-storey complex and of general negligence over the safety of the complex.
His arrest by the Rapid Action Battalion was greeted with huge cheers as it was announced on loudspeakers at the factory block.
Meanwhile, rescue workers are desperately toiling to save nine people they have found amid the rubble.
As the likelihood of finding any more survivors from the wreckage grows slimmer by the hour, a group of rescuers are using light machinery to try and save the panic-stricken factory staff.
One ray of hope to emerge from the disaster came from the news that a female worker had given birth to a healthy baby boy while she was trapped under rubble.
A rescuer named Didar Hossain said she had been rescued six hours after the complex collapsed.
'She gave birth while inside the building. She was about 26 or 27 years old,' he said.
'When we found her she said "Please save my baby first".
'The baby was crying. The umbilical cord was still there.
Garment workers took to the streets of Dhakar yesterday to vent their fury at the disaster and at the terrible working conditions of the factory staff.
There was also a protest outside the Marble Arch branch of Primark, which has clothes made in the Rana Plaza, calling for the victims' families to be given compensation.
More than 900 workers remain unaccounted for.
- Metro
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