DHAKA: A Bangladeshi garment worker who spent 108 days in a coma after being badly injured in one of the world’s worst industrial disasters has died, officials said yesterday.
Manwar Hossain, 22, was ironing clothes in one of the garment factories housed in the nine-storey building outside the Bangladeshi capital when it collapsed on April 24.
Hossain was among several thousand people pulled from the rubble at the time of the accident and taken to hospital.
Oppn rejects poll results
PNOM PEHN: Cambodia’s main opposition party yesterday rejected official results showing the ruling party of Prime Minister Hun Sen won last month’s election, and called on the international community not to recognise the result.
Kem Sokha, the deputy head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), told reporters his party would not accept the result because its allegations of widespread fraud had not been addressed.
The National Election Committee — a state body seen as dominated by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) — announced earlier on Monday that the CPP had won a majority of votes in 19 out of Cambodia’s 24 provinces.
Police arrest suspected rebel
JAKARTA: Indonesian police say they have arrested a suspected militant on the country’s main Java island accused of raising funds for an alleged plot to bomb the Myanmar Embassy.
Police spokesman Lt Col Agus Rianto said yesterday that 26-year-old Muhammad Syaiful Syahbani was arrested on August 9 in Yogyakarta province.
Another man with him was also held for questioning, but his connection to the suspect was not immediately clear.
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