Scores Dead and Hundreds Feared Trapped in Bangladesh Collapse

[Emily]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/25/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse.html?_r=0

By JIM YARDLEY
Published: April 24, 2013


NEW DELHI ? An eight-story building in Bangladesh that housed several garment factories collapsed on Wednesday morning, killing at least 70 people, injuring hundreds of others, and leaving an unknown number of people trapped in the rubble, according to Bangladeshi officials and media outlets.
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Re: Scores Dead and Hundreds Feared Trapped in Bangladesh Collapse

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/world/asia/bangladesh-building-collapse/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

50 more survivors found amid Bangladesh building rubble
By Tom Watkins and Farid Ahmed, CNN
updated 11:39 AM EDT, Fri April 26, 2013


Savar, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Rescuers tunneling Friday into the rubble of the eight-story building that collapsed Wednesday discovered another 50 people trapped on what remained of its third floor, an official said.

Bangladesh Fire Service Deputy Director Maj. Mizamur Rahman said rescuers were hoping to free them within a few hours.

Also Friday, two women who gave birth under the debris were rescued -- along with their infants -- a fire service official said, according to BSS.

The news of survival and new life came as the 72-hour deadline to change the operation from rescue to recovery approached, even as hundreds more people were feared still trapped amid the rubble...