DHAKA: At least 82 people have died and 700 are injured after an eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday, a doctor said.
Only the ground floor of the Rana Plaza in the town of Savar outside Dhaka, which also housed a bank branch, remained intact when the incident occurred at about 9 a.m. (4 a.m. in Manila), officials said.
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