13 people charged for fire at Tazreen Fashions

Three years after the disastrous blaze at Tazreen Fashions that claimed the lives of 112 garment workers, a Bangladesh court on Thursday finally charged more than a dozen people with homicide. Among those accussed are the two factory owners Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akte as well as eleven managers and security guards. The factory at the outskirts of Dhaka produced readymade garments for international buyers, among them German textile discounter Kik. According to public prosecutor Khandakar Abdul Mannan, the trial will start on October 1, 2015.