Rescue workers trying to reach 90 people trapped under the rubble of a collapsed factory in Bangladesh warned on Tuesday that time is running out to find survivors, as the death toll reached 25. Firefighters, police and army engineers desperately searched for anyone still alive after the nine-storey building fell early on Monday.
Up to 200 workers are believed trapped in the rubble of an eight-storey factory that collapsed in Bangladesh on Monday. Fifteen people have been confirmed killed, officials said. The concrete building, packed with night-shift workers, caved in soon after midnight when a boiler exploded, said a police spokesperson.
At least 34 people were killed and more than 500 injured by a tropical storm that flattened more than 3 000 houses in northern Bangladesh. ”The death figures will go up as we cannot start full-scale search operations because of the rough weather,” police chief Bhanu Lal Das said on Monday.