BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The casualties as it stands now, is at least 260 people dead, and around a thousand injured. The eight-story garment factory building collapsed on Wednesday outside the capital Dhaka. About two thirds of the three thousand workers have been rescued. But an unknown number remain trapped in the rubble.

Officials said Thursday that the employees, mostly women, were told to work despite warnings the site was unsafe. Survivors described a deafening bang and tremors before the building crashed all around them. Local residents joined the rescue, they used flashlights and dug with crowbars and their bare hands to find survivors and bodies beneath the wreckage.

Late on Thursday, rescuers forced a hole into a room and pulled out 41 people alive. Dhaka city development authority has filed a case against the building’s owner for faulty construction. The disaster has refocused attention on Western high-street brands that use Bangladesh as a source of low cost goods. North American and European chains said they were supplied by factories in the building.

(Source: CNTV.cn)