Bangladesh suspends 7 inspectors it says renewed doomed factories' licenses without visiting
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Bangladesh has suspended seven inspectors it accuses of negligence for renewing the licenses of the five garment factories in a building that collapsed in April, killing more than 1,100 people.
Mikail Shipar, the top bureaucrat at the labor ministry, said Monday that a ministry investigation has found that the inspectors never even visited the factories housed in the shabbily built eight-story Rana Plaza building, which collapsed April 24.
Shipar says the ministry's report is preliminary, and that if the accusations are proven the inspectors will lose their jobs.
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Shipar says three of the suspended inspectors also were involved in renewing the license of a garment factory where 112 people were killed in a fire in November. He gave no further details.