Primark to pay $10m to workers over Bangladesh factory collapse

British clothes retailer Primark will pay a further $10m (€7m) in compensation to victims of the collapse of a Bangladeshi factory last year that killed more than 1,100 people.

The disaster has galvanised most of the clothing industry’s big names to work together to improve safety standards but many brands have shunned a fund that is trying to raise $40m for the over 2,000 injured and the families of the dead.

Campaigners are demanding that 27 brands linked to factories in the Rana Plaza complex contribute to the fund run by the International Labour Organisation by the first anniversary of the April 24 collapse.