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April 24, 2013 began as a normal day at the Rana Plaza garment factory in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital. 

The eight-story building, constructed several years earlier on a reclaimed swampland, was its usual hive of frenetic activity.

Some 2,000 workers – mostly women – were busy sewing T-shirts, jeans and other clothing items for major Western fashion labels, under pressure to complete orders on time.

But under the surface things were far from normal. Employees had been forced back to work only a day after the factory had been evacuated following the discovery of cracks in the walls. It proved to be a deadly decision. 

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