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Bangladesh officials say building collapse death toll hits 1,034
Fp Archives •Officials said 1,034 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of the fallen factory building as of Friday morning.
Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll reaches 800
Fp Archives •According to officials at the makeshift army control room here, the death toll hit 794 on the 15th day after the disaster.
Bangladesh building collapse: Toll climbs to 761
Fp Archives •The death toll from a collapsed building housing five garment factories rose to 761 on Wednesday as authorities started disbursing salary and other benefits to the survivors in the country's deadliest industrial disaster.
Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll at 705, survivors demand compensation
Fp Archives •The disaster is the worst ever in the garment sector, surpassing the 1911 garment disaster in New York's Triangle Shirtwaist factory, which killed 146 workers.
Bangladesh building collapse toll hits 675
Fp Archives •Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a garment worker crushed in the accident filed a complaint.
Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll climbs to 645
Fp Archives •Bangladeshi police are investigating possible murder charges against the owner of a shoddily built factory that collapsed nearly two weeks ago after the wife of a garment worker crushed in the accident filed a complaint.
Bangladesh minister says disaster not 'really serious'
Fp Archives •The country's finance minister downplayed the impact of the disaster on the garment industry, saying he didn't think it was "really serious."
Bangladesh building collapse: Death toll crosses 500
Fp Archives •The toll in last week's building collapse on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka climbed to 501 on Friday, the authorities said.
Police arrest engineer who warned Bangladesh building might collapse
Fp Archives •Bangladeshi police arrested the engineer who warned that a building housing garment factories was unsafe a day before it collapsed, killing at least 487 people.
Building collapse: Bangladeshi police arrest engineer
Fp Archives •Abdur Razzak Khan worked as the Rana Plaza owner's consultant when the owner illegally added three floors atop his five-story building, police official Ohiduzzaman said Friday.