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The death toll in last month's collapse of a
building that housed mostly garment factories in Bangladesh has risen
to more than 1,000, officials said Friday.
Rescuers have been retrieving bodies from the eight-storey Rana
Plaza building in Savar near Dhaka, since it collapsed on April 24, a
day after factory managers ignored the appearance of cracks in the
building.
An official at the disaster management control room said rescuers
had recovered 1,032 bodies from the rubble.
The rescue crew were removing the concrete wreckage in search of
more bodies believed to be trapped inside, army Captain Shahnewaz
Zakaria said.
More than 2,400 people were injured in the collapse.
