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Bangladesh

As quake-prone Asia urbanises, shoddy construction raises disaster risk

By: Mushfique Wadud and Jared Ferrie

More than half a million people killed, 1.4 million injured, and 80 percent of buildings damaged in Bangladesh’s three largest cities: That’s the “worst-case scenario” outlined in an unpublished draft contingency plan for a large earthquake.

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