DHAKA: Bangladeshi police have arrested the mayor of the town where a garment factory block collapsed killing 1,129 people, for his role in approving the shoddy structure, an officer said on Thursday.

Mohammad Refayet Ullah, the mayor of Savar, was arrested in the capital on Wednesday exactly three months after the Rana Plaza building collapsed in one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.

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