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A look back at 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

A Bangladeshi woman holds a laminated picture of a missing relative and a bone fragment on the site of the former Rana Plaza garment complex in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka, almost two years after 1,100 people were killed in one of the world's worst industrial disasters.

A Bangladeshi woman holds a laminated picture of a missing relative and a bone fragment on the site of the former Rana Plaza garment complex in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka, almost two years after 1,100 people were killed in one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.

  (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

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Authorities in Bangladesh charged 42 people with murder on Monday in the 2013 collapse of a garment factory building that killed more than 1,100 people and drew worldwide attention to dangerous conditions in one of the world’s major textile industries.

2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

Mourners and relatives of a victim of the Rana Plaza building collapse weep as they mark the second anniversary of the disaster at the site where the building once stood in Savar, Bangladesh.

  (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

A poster reading, “We want a safe work place, not a death trap,” hangs at the scene of the Bangladesh Rana Plaza building collapse on the first anniversary of the disaster.

  (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi activists and relatives of the victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse wear funeral shrouds as they take part in a protest marking the first anniversary of the disaster at the site where the building once stood in Savar.

  (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

A mourner grieves at the scene of the Rana Plaza garment building collapse on the 100-day anniversary of the disaster in Savar, Bangladesh.

  (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi family members of missing garment workers place roses on a barbed wire fence in tribute to the victims.

  (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi people and garments workers march to demand a death sentence for Sohel Rana, the owner of the building that collapsed in 2013.

  (Munir Uz Zaman / AFP/Getty Images)

2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

An injured garment worker is carried from the collapsed building in Savar, Bangladesh, on April 24, 2013.

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2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi army members remove the body of a garment worker.

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