DHAKA\/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Three supervisors of a Bangladeshi garment factory were arrested on Wednesday as protests over a suspected arson fire that killed more than 100 people raged on into a third day, with textile workers and police clashing in the streets of a Dhaka suburb.<\/p>\n
The government has blamed last weekend’s disaster, the country’s worst-ever industrial blaze, on saboteurs and police said they had arrested two people, who were seen on CCTV footage trying to set fire to stockpiles of material in another factory.<\/p>\n
The fire at Tazreen Fashions has put a spotlight on global retailers that source clothes from Bangladesh, where wage costs are low – as little as $37 a month for some workers. Rights groups have called on Western firms to sign on to a safety program in that country, the world’s second-biggest clothes exporter.<\/p>\n
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, said one of its suppliers subcontracted work to the now burned-out factory without authorization and would no longer be used. But one of the most senior figures in the country’s garment industry cast doubt on that claim.<\/p>\n