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Mehedi Hasan, who worked at the New Wave Button factory on the third floor, said that though a crack had appeared in a wall Tuesday, on Wednesday morning factory supervisors asked workers to return, claiming the building was safe.

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Mehedi Hasan, who worked at the New Wave Style factory on the third floor, said although workers were evacuated after a crack appeared in a wall on Tuesday, on Wednesday morning factory supervisors told workers to return, saying the building was safe.

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Mehedi Hasan, who worked at the New Wave Button factory on the third floor, said although workers were evacuated after a crack appeared in a wall on Tuesday, on Wednesday morning factory supervisors told workers to return, saying the building was safe.

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"Each wave is like a hammer stroke beating on a sea wall which starts to make it crack and then we have to repair it, " she says.

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