We all remember the horrible collapse of the eight-story Rana Plaza garment factory building near Dhaka in Bangladesh in April 2013. More than 1.000 people died, over 2.500 were heavily injured and traumatized. The photographer Ismail Ferdous documented the deadly cost of fashion for the New York times. The video is worth watching and even more valuable spreading.
Unfortunately, this hasn’t been the only collapse of a house in the Dhaka area. This photo by our photographer and photo journalist Jakob Berr shows a soldier of the Bangladeshi army evacuating an elderly woman from a building adjacent to a collapsed house in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. He writes: “With all the buildings in the area standing wall-to-wall, the narrow and tall structures in this historic part of the Bangladeshi capital support each other like cards in a card house, putting the buildings next to the collapsed house in immediate danger of coming down themselves.”
‘Soldier evacuating old woman, Bangladesh’ by Jakob Berr
