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J Scott Hill on 25 Apr 13"umi Abedin was making 18 cents an hour as a seamstress, putting together garments for Sean "P Diddy" Combs' clothing line (known as Sean John Clothing) when the factory she worked in located outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, began burning. "The door was locked and we couldn't get out," Abedin said, speaking through translator and Bangladeshi labor activist Kalpona Akter. She ended up having to leap from a three-story window, breaking an arm and a leg - and feeling lucky to have survived. More than a hundred did not."