Death toll in Bangladesh collapse tops 323

  27 April 2013    Read: 448
Death toll in Bangladesh collapse tops 323
On Saturday morning, 15 more people were rescued from the rubble.
At least 323 people died after the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in the suburb of Savar collapsed on Wednesday.

On Saturday morning, 15 more people were rescued from the rubble. This came after rescuers said they had located as many as 40 people still alive at various places on the third floor of the building. The rescuers had also managed to pass oxygen cylinders and water to those who remained trapped in the rubble. More than 3,100 people are believed to have been working in the building at the time of the collapse. Hundreds are still missing.

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