Bangladesh court orders mass arrests over factory disaster

The Rana Plaza garment factory building collapsed in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, in April 2013 killing more than 1,100 people. -AFP filepic

DHAKA: A Bangladesh court Monday ordered the arrest of 24 people and seizure of their assets after they failed to turn up to face murder charges over the collapse of a garment factory that killed more than 1,100 people.

Senior judicial magistrate Mohammad Al Amin issued the warrants after his court accepted the murder charges against the 24 fugitives for the collapse in April 2013 of the Rana Plaza factory compound, one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.