A 8 layers of building houses, some clothing factory collapsed, killing at least 70 people, and captured the many in the chaos of broken concrete and brick, Bangladesh's capital Wednesday morning near the officials said.
In a garment factory in November in the United States $2 billion, a textile industry this year, produce the global fashion brand clothing to wear around the world, 112 people were killed, and put forward the outcry about safety crash stirred memories of deadly fire.
Wood square, construction workers, said the day before it has been developed, it has been in the local news channel reported so serious cracks. They enter the building without hesitation on Wednesday morning, said abdul rahim, who worked in a clothing factory on the fifth floor.
But there is no problem on them from the manager of the factory, so they went in, he said.
"We began to work, after about an hour or so, the building suddenly collapsed," he said. Remember next time he recover from outside the building.
Between the construction enterprise the new wave of phantom of the opera clothing co., LTD. Stylistic supplies co., LTD., a new wave of bottoms co., LTD., and new wave brother co., LTD., garment factories, companies, make clothing brands including benetton, the position of the children and dress barn. Workers say they don't know what is specific clothing brand is building, because the label stick on the product is completed.
Carbon black, 25 workers, who will go to a name, she said she is sewing jeans construction fall, at least 400 people in the fifth floor. "Suddenly collapsed," she said. "No shaking, no sign, it's just we collapse."
She survived because she successfully reached a hole construction, through the rescuers pulled her out.
Tens of thousands of people gathered at the scene, some of them crying survivors, some for family. Use drilling machine and crane firefighters and soldiers and the local volunteers in the search for the other survivors.
The specific structure of a large part of the seem to have split like branches. Colorful sheet remains of cloth tied to the upstairs, surely that can climb inside or slide down, escape.
One arm stretched out a section of the rubble. It can be seen that in another dusty woman corpse. Firefighters in body seems to be a teenager.
Ibrahim said, his mother and father, who worked with him in the factory, trapped inside.
"I don't know what's wrong," he said.
Mosammat Khurshida cried, she looked at her husband. "He came to work in the morning, I can't find him," she said. "I don't know where he is, he doesn't answer his phone. Oh, Lord, I have to do now?"
In addition to the factory, construction and found a place for Banks and shops.
Zahidur rahman at ENAM medical school and hospital's director of public relations, said on Wednesday night, 87 people have been confirmed dead in the collapse, on the outskirts of dhaka sarwar construction. Double sticker. General Mohammed alam Shikder Siddiqul said. Another 600 survivors have been rescued.
Reports suggest that the death toll could rise.
Mr. Ma said, "muhammad" in a building, we have sent two individuals, we can save at least 20 people were alive, they also told us that at least 100 to 150 people were injured, about 50 people died still trapped inside this layer, in a garment factory director.
Crash happened around 8:30 in the morning, because garment factories in the area of daily work, 24 hours a day, it might appear four when placed in the staff of the building.
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