“Somewhere around 60% of the buildings are vulnerable”

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Three-fifths of Bangladeshi garment factories are susceptible to collapse, according to a survey by the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

The survey follows the Dhaka disaster which killed more than 1,100 people when the eight-storey Rana Plaza building, housing factories producing clothes for western retailers, collapsed.

So far, the engineers at the university have surveyed one-sixth of 600 buildings that house more than 3,000 clothes factories, the Guardian reported.

Professor Mehedi Ansary, who leads the engineering team, told the Guardian: “Somewhere around 60% of the buildings are vulnerable. This doesn’t mean they will collapse in the next week or month, but it does mean that to leave them unchanged would be irresponsible.”

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