Police in Bangladesh say the death toll from a building collapse last week has passed 400.
The eight-storey Rana Plaza building housing five garment factories and other offices collapsed onto itself April 24. Workers were still pulling bodies from (...)
A fire has broken out in the wreckage of the garment factory that collapsed last week in Bangladesh, with smoke pouring from the piles of shattered concrete forced some rescue efforts to stop.
Officials said the fire broke out because of sparks (...)
The owner of an illegally-constructed building that collapsed last week in a deadly heap in a Dhaka suburb was arrested at a border crossing with India on Sunday, a government minister said.
Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested near the land-crossing in (...)
Rescuers tunneling Friday into the rubble of the eight-storey building that collapsed Wednesday discovered another 50 people trapped on what remained of its third floor, an official said.
Bangladesh Fire Service Deputy Director Maj. Mizamur Rahman (...)
A Frenchman is sailing home from Bangladesh in an eco and budget friendly boat partly made from jute, to raise awareness about the natural fiber that was once the mainstay of the poor Asian country's economy.
Coretin de Chatelperron's journey in (...)
The number of people who died in
the collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory rose to 73
Monday after rescuers recovered four more bodies from the
debris, police said.
A boiler blast last week brought the nine-storey building
down on top of (...)
A nine-storey garment factory
collapsed following a boiler explosion early Monday,
killing at least four people and trapping 200 others,
police and rescuers said.
Police said at least 300 people were in the sweater-making
factory near Savar, an (...)
