Owner of Collapsed Dhaka Building Nabbed in Bangladesh

World | April 28, 2013, Sunday // 16:17|  views

The eight-storey building contained a clothing factory, a bank and several other shops. It collapsed during the morning rush hour last Wednesday. Photo by EPA

Police authorities have arrested the owner of a building that collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and killed hundreds of people last week.

Local government minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak said that that the owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was arrested at the Indian border.

The owner had been in hiding since the Rana Plaza collapsed on Wednesday, the BBC reminds.

Rescuers are in a race against time to reach nine survivors as officials prepare to bring in heavy machinery to move the wreckage.

Over 360 people are now known to have died in the disaster and hundreds more are missing.
On Sunday, two more people were pulled alive from the rubble and a group of about nine survivors was also located.

A total of six people, including three factory owners, have now been arrested in relation with the disaster.

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