Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll passes 400

by AJP Posted : May 9, 2013, 18:19Updated : May 9, 2013, 17:45
Officials say that the number of people killed in the factory building that collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has now exceeded 400.

According to a senior army official, a list of 149 people who were missing had been compiled with relatives.

On Tuesday, in May Day parades in Dhaka, thousands of people marched demanding that the factory owner be given the death penalty.

Last Wednesday, in Rana Plaza, a factory collapsed in one of the nation’s worst industrial disasters.

The AFP news agency told by a military spokesman confirmed that the death toll now stood at 402.

According to the army general, Dhaka district administrator, Zilur Rahman Chowdhury, confirmed a list of the missing that had been drawn up by local officials.

Because of a possibility of duplications in the results of the estimated death toll, it was originally much higher.

In the original disaster, the building was reduced to 600 tons of rubble - only 350 tons of them have now been cleared.

At the protest in Dhaka, 20,000 people were protesting, some holding banners with the words: “Hang the killers, Hang the Factory Owners.”

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