Foreign labels found in latest Bangladesh factory fire

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By Alex Lennane

28/01/2013

And another factory fire in Bangladesh – this time, Inditex appears to have been one of the ultimate customers, but the work had been sub-contracted by another garment factory. It had no fire department licence and a door was locked…at least seven workers died.

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