Date 11 April 2005 Non-fatal injuries ~80> | Deaths 73 | |
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Time 00:45 am BST (UTC+06:00) Location Savar Upazila, Dhaka District, Bangladesh Also known as Spectrum garment factory collapse | ||
The 2005 Savar building collapse or Spectrum garment factory collapse was a structural failure that occurred on Monday, 11 April 2005 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where an nine-story commercial building collapsed. The site is located about 30 km northwest of Dhaka. The explosion of a boiler on the ground floor triggered the collapse. The owner of the building was Shahriar Sayeed Husain, a Bangladeshi businessman.
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