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82 Dead in Bangladesh Building Collapse

At least 82 people have died and 700 are injured after a eight-storey building housing several garment factories collapsed on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday, a doctor said.

Hiralal Roy, a senior emergency ward doctor at the nearby Enam hospital where victims are being transferred, told Agence France Presse: "The death toll is now 82. At least 700 people have also been treated at the hospital."

Source: Agence France Presse


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