“Rana Plaza”, an eight-storied commercial building, located at Dhaka-Aricha highway near Savar bus stand, collapsed on 24 April, 2013 at around 9:30 am. The building housed five garment factories (New Wave Button, New Wave Styles, Ethar Tex, Phantom Apparels and Phantom Tex) employing around 5,000 people, 300+ shops, and a bank. An official statement of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association cited 3,122 workers to be in the building at the time of the collapse