Savar, Apr 26: The death toll in the collapse of an eight-storey commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital today rose to 290, as rescuers looked for last survivors under tonnes of debris at suburban Savar.
“We have retrieved so far 290 bodies and rescued alive some 2100 people... We now look for the last survivors under the debris (of Rana Plaza),” a fire service official told PTI.
He said at least two dozen people were still expected to be alive under the concrete garbage and rescuers now mobilised their efforts to salvage them discarding the dead ones as time was running out for their survival.
Police said two of the people rescued overnight were missing detectives of industrial police unit who went inside the building to investigate into the cracks when it caved in.
