building collapse

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The Bangladesh military says it is ending its search for survivors in the wreckage of an eight-story garment factory building that collapsed last month. By FARID HOSSAIN Associated Press DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- The Bangladesh military...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A fire in an 11-story garment factory in Bangladesh killed eight people, including a ruling-party politician and a top official in the country's powerful clothing manufacturers' trade group, as the death toll from the collapse of another garment factory building...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- 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. By JULHAS ALAM Associated...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- More than 600 bodies have been recovered from the garment-factory building that collapsed well over a week ago, police said Sunday as the grim recovery work continued in one of the worst industrial accidents ever. By FARID HOSSAIN Associated...

JURAIN, Bangladesh (AP) -- Dozens of Bangladeshi garment workers, their bodies too battered or decomposed to be identified, were buried in a mass funeral Wednesday, a week after the eight-story building they worked in toppled down, killing at least 410 people and injuring thousands....

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) -- A Bangladesh court on Monday allowed police 15 days to interrogate the owner of a building that collapsed last week and killed 382 people, as rescuers used heavy machinery to cut through the destroyed structure after giving up hopes of finding any more survivors....

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) -- More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and concrete. Rescue crews struggled to save them, knowing they probably had...