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Bangladeshi garment workers who fell ill during their shifts at a sweater factory lie on beds at a hospital on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on June 6, 2013. About 450 garment workers fell ill at the Starlight Sweater Factory near Bangladesh's capital, due to possible water contamination. A building collapse near Dhaka in April killed 1,129 workers, injured others and highlighted the hazardous working conditions in thousands of garment factories in Bangladesh. (Associated Press)

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Bangladeshis gather during a demonstration by garment workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the capital, on Monday, May 27, 2013, to demand better working conditions and an increase in pay. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

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Bangladeshi people search for their belongings after the clashes between police and Islamic hardliners during a protest in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, May 6, 2013. At least 15 people died in clashes in Bangladesh Monday between police and Islamic hardliners demanding that Bangladesh implement an anti-blasphemy law, police said. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

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A woman is comforted as she grieves after identifying the body of her daughter, a victim of the garment factory collapse, on Sunday, May 5, 2013, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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A woman is comforted by family members and others after she identified the body of her relative recovered from the rubble of the garment factory building which collapsed last week, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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A woman grieves as she sticks a poster of a portrait of her family member on the wall of a school turned make-shift morgue on Tuesday April, 30, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

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** FILE ** Bangladeshi relatives of missing workers in a building that collapsed Wednesday hold pictures of their family members in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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Mohammed Sohel Rana (center), the fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh, reacts as he is produced before the media in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the capital, on Sunday, April 28, 2013. Mr. Rana was arrested near the border in Benapole, in western Bangladesh, just as he was about to flee into India's West Bengal state, said Jahangir Kabir Nanak, junior minister for local government. (AP Photo/Palash Khan)

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A Bangladeshi rescuer looks out from a hole cut in the concrete as he searches for survivors on Thursday, April 25, 2013, at the site of a building that collapsed the day before in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)