The death toll rose to more than 800 from the collapse of a building in Bangladesh housing five garment factories Wednesday, as authorities shut 18 factories deemed to pose safety risks. According to dpa, rescuers have been retrieving bodies from the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in Savar near Dhaka since it collapsed on April 24, a day after factory managers ignored structural cracks. On Wednesday the death toll in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster rose to 804. More than 2,400 people were injured. Soldiers, firefighters and Red Crescent volunteers used cranes, bulldozers, cameras and sniffer dogs to search the rubble.
