But I could not come out, and another girl was killed as the building collapsed.
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.
Shortly after she did, the building collapsed, she said from her hospital bed.
"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.
They went in at 8:00am and the building collapsed at 9:00am.
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.
Shortly before the building collapsed last Wednesday, there was a power cut, and all the generators started up, according to the initial findings of a government inquiry committee.
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The building collapsed, killing some of the Americans inside.
The neighborhood where the building collapsed was part of a belt of more than 2, 000 illegal structures that had sprung up in the area in recent years, said Mr. Malvi, the municipal spokesman.
The building collapsed Friday with a "huge whoosh and then thump, " said Ali Jawad Bhimani, a hotel owner who lives near the building in Dar es Salaam's normally bustling Kariakoo central business district.
Official reports say: A three-year investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded that the building collapsed because of uncontrolled fires, started by the collapse of the nearby North Tower, and which burnt for seven hours.
The building that collapsed in Thane had seven floors and the builder was adding an eighth, Vijay Nlawad, an officer at the local police station, said Saturday.
The building that collapsed in Thane had seven floors and the builder was adding an eighth one, said Vijay Nlawad, an officer at the local police station.
The building that collapsed was illegally constructed on forest land, and the city informed forestry officials twice about it, Mr. Malvi said.
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.
In fact, there were five factories alone in the building that collapsed in Bangladesh last week.
About 45 minutes into the shift, the building suddenly collapsed, killing at least 362 people in a fury of falling concrete.
"Even so, notwithstanding the social audit, it would have been impossible to detect the structural defects of the collapsed building, " the company said.
"It is not the whole building that collapsed, but just a storage area in the front part of the building, " he said.
The company occupied a floor of the collapsed building and the workers there were suppliers to the brand.
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.
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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Merina Khatun, 21, was a sewing operator at a garment factory inside the eight-floor building which collapsed on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, on Wednesday.
Primark occupied a floor of the collapsed building and workers there were suppliers to the brand.
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