Death Toll Passes 500 in Bangladesh Building Collapse

The death toll from the collapse of an eight-storey factory building near the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has passed 500, officials say.

Another 29 bodies were pulled from the rubble of the Rana Plaza building in Savar overnight, bringing the total to 507, the army said.

Scores of workers are still unaccounted for. Nine people have been arrested.

It is Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster and has sparked anger among workers in the country.

The previous most deadly structural failure in modern times - excluding the 9/11 terror attacks in New York - was the Sampoong department store in Seoul, South Korea, in 1995, in which 502 people died.

Source: BBC