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.

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June 1, 2015 8:04 AM PT

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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.

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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.

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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)