People and rescuers gather after an eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed in Savar, Bangladesh on April 24, 2013. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad)

(Bloomberg) — Bangladesh brought murder charges against 41 people for the 2013 collapse of a garment factory building that killed more than 1,100 people, the nation’s worst industrial disaster.

Charges were brought against a total 42 people, including the owners of five workshops housed in the building, Bijoy Krishna Kar, assistant superintendent of police and the lead investigator, told reporters in the capital. Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza, was among those charged with murder.

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