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1 year after factory collapse, Bangladeshis suffer

By Julhas Alam
Published April 24, 2014 10:36am ET
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1 year after factory collapse, Bangladeshis suffer
Relatives of the victims of the April 24 Rana Plaza building collapse, gathers at the site of Rana Plaza building collapse ahead of the first anniversary, the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment industry, in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. At least 1,136 people were killed when the illegally constructed, 8-storey building collapsed April 24, 2013, in a heap along with thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad) | A.M. Ahad

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — One year after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in a pile of concrete slabs and twisted metal, Bangladeshi seamstress Shefali says she would rather starve to death than return to factory work.

Like many survivors of the worst disaster the garment industry has ever seen, 18-year-old Shefali, who goes by one name, says she suffers from depression and has flashbacks of the catastrophe that killed more than 1,100 people. She was injured in the collapse that happened a year ago Thursday and has lingering back pain.

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