How do you think prices got so low?
The 100-plus workers who died in a fire late Saturday at a high-rise garment factory in Bangladesh
were working overtime making clothes for major American retailers, including Wal-Mart, according
to workers' rights groups.
Officials in Bangladesh said the flames at the Tazreen Fashions factory outside Dhaka spread rapidly
on the ground floor, trapping those on the higher floors of the nine-story building. There were no
exterior fire escapes and many died after jumping from upper floors to escape the flames.
Officials said at least 112 people had died but that could go higher.
The Tazreen fire is the latest in a series of deadly blazes at garment factories in Bangladesh, where more
than 700 workers, many making clothes for U.S. consumers, have died in factory fires in the past five years.
Bangladesh has some of the cheapest labor in the world and some of the most deplorable working conditions.
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