An eight-story building collapsed Wednesday morning on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, killing at least 123 people and injuring hundreds, a police official said.
...Several garment workers near the wreckage said a crack appeared Tuesday on the building's seventh floor.
At first, the workers said, managers ordered workers not to report to work on Wednesday.
Later, the factory owners reversed the order, telling workers that the building was safe, said Morjina Begum, who worked on the sixth floor. Many workers were hesitant to show up Wednesday but reported to work because they were afraid of losing their jobs, she said. More than a dozen other workers corroborated her story.
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Let's hope that survivors will be found speedily and what a shame about the order being reversed.
Devarim 22:8
ReplyDelete"When you build a new house then you should make a fence for your (flat) roof so that you do not bring blood upon your house if any man (the fallen one) falls from it."
A Rabbi (Reuven Stepsky) told me that this posuk refers to the "fallen one", who's fate is determined that he will fall. But even so we are obligated to ensure our home and it's contents are not hazardous.