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Article

13 May 2009

Author:
AFP [France]

Overwork` kills Bangla jeans factory girl: NGO [Bangladesh]

A Bangladeshi teenager who died in a garment factory that supplies cheap jeans for export to Europe was "overworked to death," a rights group said…A statement issued by Metro Group said the company was "deeply saddened" by the death and had immediately terminated its contract with the Bangladeshi supplier that used the factory…