Primark occupied a floor of the collapsed building and workers there were suppliers to the brand.
Two brothers were pulled out of a collapsed building in Taipei after six days.
Cheers went up at the scene of the collapsed building when his arrest was announced over loudspeakers.
The company occupied a floor of the collapsed building and the workers there were suppliers to the brand.
Early Friday, Bangladeshi authorities said 275 bodies had been recovered from the collapsed building, the Associated Press reported.
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Earlier, local people and families of victims had demonstrated near the collapsed building, as news of Mr. Rana's arrest broke.
Staff at a local hospital treated the injured outside the semi-collapsed building as bodies of the dead lay in makeshift morgues.
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"Even so, notwithstanding the social audit, it would have been impossible to detect the structural defects of the collapsed building, " the company said.
Rescue work on a collapsed building in Bangladesh has entered a sixth day, but officials say they no longer expect to find any survivors.
Habibur Rahman, police superintendent of the Dhaka district, identified the owner of the collapsed building as Mohammed Sohel Rana, a local leader of ruling Awami League's youth front.
Two of the companies in the group, New Wave Bottoms and New Wave Style were located, respectively, on the second and the 6th and 7th floors of the collapsed building.
"A search and rescue team may arrive at a collapsed building and throw transceivers into the rubble, hoping to detect the breathing of anyone still alive inside, " Patwari and colleagues write.
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At least 23 survivors had been located in one air-pocket of the collapsed building, while two more groups were located close by, bringing the total to as many as 50, says our reporter.
Faces covered in dust, frantic groups of men trying to be large enough in number to get the job done but small enough to leave space to work in the cramped confines of a half-collapsed building.
But amid all the misery, rescuers continue to have their efforts rewarded -- a woman and her one-year-old baby were pulled almost unscathed from the rubble of a collapsed building, as was a young man who'd spent a-hundred-and-three hours without food or water.
Rescue workers stop clearing the site of a collapsed factory building after a soldier says a woman waved her hand at them.
On Sunday damaging winds struck Fredericksburg, Virginia, and collapsed a building, injuring two people, according to the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center.
Angela Camon was one of the lucky ones who survived but on Tuesday was sitting in a tent after escaping from her collapsed apartment building.
In May 2002 FEMA concluded that the building collapsed because intense fires had burned for hours, fed by thousands of gallons of diesel stored in the building.
But I could not come out, and another girl was killed as the building collapsed.
Four people have been rescued after a three-storey building collapsed in Sheffield city centre.
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Officials say the building collapsed as the owner was adding another floor to an already unsafe structure.
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The two builders, Jamil Qureshi and Salim Sheikh had fled immediately after the building collapsed, authorities said.
At least 67 people were killed in November 2010 in New Delhi when an apartment building collapsed.
In 2006, at least 15 people dead and 50 injured when a five-storey building collapsed in Dhaka.
In 2006, at least 15 people died and 50 were injured when a five-storey building collapsed in Dhaka.
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Shortly after she did, the building collapsed, she said from her hospital bed.
Tons of gold and silver had been stored in underground vaults beneath 4 World Trade Center when the building collapsed September 11.
"The building collapsed like a pack of cards within three to four seconds, " Reuters news agency quoted a local resident named Ramlal as saying.
Emergency workers were still trying to pull out victims trapped in the rubble when part of the building collapsed, police told the Reuters news agency.
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