Dhaka Building Collapse: Factory Owners Arrested

Two owners of garment factories in the building that collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have surrendered to police.

Mahbubur Rahman Tapas and Balzul Samad Adnan are suspected of forcing their staff to work in the building, ignoring warnings about cracks.

At least 323 people died after the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in the suburb of Savar collapsed on Wednesday.

On Saturday morning, at least 24 more people were rescued from the rubble.

Rescuers and volunteers, who worked through the night, cheered as they were brought to safety.

The BBC’s Andrew North, at the scene, said one woman was crying as she emerged into the light on what was once the roof of the building.

She was brought up by rope from deep inside the rubble and then carried away on a stretcher, he said.

Earlier, rescue teams said they had located about 40 survivors on the collapsed third floor of the building and another 14 on what was the fifth floor.

Officials said they were working to extricate the remaining survivors and had passed oxygen cylinders and water to those still trapped.

More than 3,000 people are believed to have been working in the building at the time of the collapse and about 600 are still missing.

BBC

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