The Rana Plaza disaster ten years on

After Rana Plaza, I help prevent other tragedies from happening

April 24, 2013. It started as a normal day at the Bangladesh Fire Service, where I worked as a firefighter. When the siren sounded at 10.00 a.m., none of us had any clue how catastrophic the day would turn out to be. The Rana Plaza building had collapsed. When we arrived at the site, there were victims everywhere.

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