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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Bangladesh Building Collapse -Wednesday April 24,2013

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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