An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near
Bangladesh's capital on April 24,2013 Wednesday morning, killing at least 70 people and
trapping many more in the rubble, officials said
The collapse happened about 8:30 a.m
Firefighters and soldiers using drilling machines and cranes worked
together with local volunteers in the search for other survivors from
the building
At least 175 bodies have been recovered from a collapsed eight-storey
building in Bangladesh that housed mostly garment factories, police said
on April 25,2013 Thursday
More than 1,000 people were reported injured in Wednesday’s collapse of
the Rana Plaza building in Savar, 25 kilometres north-west of Dhaka. A
ninth floor was under construction at the time
Bangladeshi relatives of missing workers in a building that collapsed on
Wednesday hold pictures of their family members in Savar, near Dhaka,
Bangladesh
1,127 bodies rescued as Savar rescue operation comes to end
The 20-day rescue operation in the Savar Rana Plaza collapse has
formally ended on Tuesday May 14,2013with the Bangladesh army handing over the
responsibility of the collapsed building to the civil administration.
The army, along with locals and fire brigade, had rescued 2,438 people
from the rubble of the nine-story building . “We promised that we would
continue our rescue Mission till we found the last body. Now, there is
no possibility of recovering more corpses at this point,” said Maj Gen
Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, general officer commanding (GOC) of the
army’s ninth infantry division.
The death toll of the country’s deadliest industrial disaster is 1,127,
including the 12, who died while undergoing treatment at hospital. As
many as 234 unclaimed bodies have been buried while another 59
unidentified bodies are still at Dhaka Medical College morgue.
A total of 1,127 bodies, mostly of the garment workers, have been pulled
out of the high rise that housed five garment factories and collapsed
on April 24,2013
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