Widow of Bangladesh shipbreaker pursues test case on worker safety
Hamida Begum s husband, Khalil Mollah, 32, fell to his death in 2018 while breaking up the tanker Ekta in the Bangladesh port of Chattogram, home to one of the world s largest ship-breaking yards, where vessels are dismantled for scrap metal. Her UK-based lawyers said working conditions in Bangladesh s yards were known to be dangerous and argued Maran bore responsibility for Mollah s death by selling the tanker to an intermediary knowing it would probably end up in Chittagong.Reuters | Updated: 11-03-2021 19:18 IST | Created: 11-03-2021 19:18 IST
By Naimul Karim DHAKA, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.
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