SURVIVOR FOUND 17 DAYS AFTER SAVAR BUILDING COLLAPSE
Rescue workers say they have found a survivor amongst the rubble of the Rana Plaza building, 17 days after it collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh.
Marathon refinery is on #fire in #Detroit. Hazmat level 3. People may be evacuated. (via neavling on Instagram)
Local fire crews on-scene say there have been no reports of injuries and/or fatalities, as yet.
UPDATE: The fire at the crude oil refinery in Detroit, which forced the partial evacuation of a near-by town, has been extinguished, according to the refinery’s owner, Marathon Petroleum Corp.
No injuries or fatalities were reported from the blaze.
UPDATE: 12 bodies have been recovered from the burnt rubble of a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Moscow; 26 people are currently unaccounted for.
![Garment factory collapse kills at least 194, injures 600+ in Bangladesh; numbers expected to rise
Workers in Bangladesh were so anxious about the cracks in their building that as many as 2,500 refused to enter on Tuesday, according to a labour rights group, per Los Angeles Times.
Activists say the building’s owner and several factory managers assured the workers that they had nothing to fear before persuading them back to work on Wednesday — barely an hour before the eight-storey building collapsed, crushing to death hundreds of people.
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“The workers were absolutely frightened,” Charlie Kernaghan, director of the Pittsburgh-based Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, which has offices in Bangladesh, told the Los Angeles Times. “They saw those cracks with their own eyes […] but they felt they had no choice. If you don’t go to work, you’re not getting paid.”
At least 194 garment workers, employed in factories that supply high-street stores — including Irish clothing retailer, Primark — have been confirmed dead following the collapse.
Working overnight, under floodlights with industrial cutters and cranes, scores of fire service and army rescue workers struggled to break through mountains of concrete and mangled steel to reach people trapped beneath.
“The whole building collapsed like a pancake within minutes. Most workers did not have any chance to escape,” national fire department chief Ahmed Ali told Agence France-Presse “We can still hear the faint cries of some trapped people.”
The accident has once again underlined the safety problems and poor working conditions that plague the textile industry in Bangladesh, the world’s second-largest clothing exporter.
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Garment factory collapse kills at least 194, injures 600+ in Bangladesh; numbers expected to rise
Workers in Bangladesh were so anxious about the cracks in their building that as many as 2,500 refused to enter on Tuesday, according to a labour rights group, per Los Angeles Times.
Activists say the building’s owner and several factory managers assured the workers that they had nothing to fear before persuading them back to work on Wednesday — barely an hour before the eight-storey building collapsed, crushing to death hundreds of people.
BOMBING SUSPECTS “ACTED ALONE”
Two U.S. officials and various other law enforcement sources say evidence suggests that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were “motivated by religion,” “worked alone” and “learned how to make bombs via instructions found on the internet,” according to the Associated Press and ABC News.
![PLOT TO DERAIL NY-TO-TORONTO TRAIN THWARTED IN CANADA (UPDATED)
Canadian law enforcement officials announced earlier today that they had arrested and charged two suspects in Montreal and Toronto, thwarting a “suspected al-Qaeda-supported plot” to derail a New York-to-Toronto passenger train.
The arrests come just two days after the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but Canadian officials stated that there were no connections between the two plots, according to CBC News.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, were conspiring to carry out an attack against Via Rail, but posed no immediate threat.
“Had this plot been carried out, it would have resulted in innocent people being killed or seriously injured,” Royal Canadian Mounted Police official James Malizia told media at a press conference, earlier this afternoon.
Malizia said the two men had “direction and guidance” from “al-Qaeda elements located in Iran,” though there was “no reason to think the planned attacks were state-sponsored.”
Charges against the two men include conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group.
“It was definitely in the planning stage, but not imminent,” RCMP chief superintendent Jennifer Strachan told reporters, adding that the pair had been plotting the attack for more than a year and that authorities had been monitoring their activity well before today’s arrests.
This is a developing story; check back for further updates.
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PLOT TO DERAIL NY-TO-TORONTO TRAIN THWARTED IN CANADA (UPDATED)
Canadian law enforcement officials announced earlier today that they had arrested and charged two suspects in Montreal and Toronto, thwarting a “suspected al-Qaeda-supported plot” to derail a New York-to-Toronto passenger train.
The arrests come just two days after the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but Canadian officials stated that there were no connections between the two plots, according to CBC News.
BOSTON MANHUNT TIMELINE: HOW IT PLAYED OUT
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, has been taken into custody “alive and conscious” after authorities pinned him down in a boat in the backyard of a Watertown, Massachusetts, home. Here’s a timeline of how the dragnet for Dzhokar and his brother played out.
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BREAKING NEWS: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in police custody; medics being called to the scene, per NBC News and police scanner.
