Bangladesh building bridesmaidressesonline collapse toll above 650 The building, which housed five factories full of garment workers, caved in on april 24, trapping hundreds of people in a tangled heap of concrete slabs and twisted metal in savar, a suburb of the capital, dhaka. Rescue workers managed to save more than 2, 400 people from the mountain of debris during days of dangerous, painstaking work in high temperatures.But they gave up hope of finding any more survivors a week ago and are now using heavy machinery to pick apart the ruins and uncover the bodies buried inside. Amid the stench of death that permeates the surrounding streets, a large number of people continue to wait near the site of the collapse for news of missing relatives.Their gathering point is a school playing field where bodies retrieved from the ruins are taken for initial identification attempts. The task of identifying is made all the more difficult by the decomposed state of many of the bodies. Some of the people camped out in the area have also been holding up trucks Mother of the Bride Dresses transporting rubble removed from the disaster to check if they're mistakenly carrying the remains of people, recovery operation officials have said. The recovery effort is expected to continue for several more days. The owners of the building and the factories are under police investigation over accusations they ordered workers to enter the premises on the day of the collapse despite cracks appearing in the structure the day before. Heavy machinery http://www.bridesmaidressesonline.co.uk/evening-dress.html blamed Preliminary results of a government inquiry into the building collapse found that"Heavy machinery and highcapacity generators"Were"Largely responsible,"The staterun bangladesh sangbad sangstha news agency reported last week. "During the inquiry, we have found that use of substandard materials during the construction also contributed to the building collapse,"The leader of the inquiry, main uddin khandaker, told bss. Bangladesh's $20 billion garment industry accounts for 77 percent of the country's exports. Among those caught up in the fingerpointing after the building collapse disaster are western retailers and clothing brands that bangladeshi suppliers say put heavy pressure on prices, resulting in bad pay and conditions for workers. On saturday representatives of bangladesh's government, industry and workers issued a joint statement laying out an"Action plan"To improve worker safety in the wake of the disaster. The european union has said it is considering trade action more information against bangladesh if it doesn't take clear steps to improve the safety conditions of its millions of garment workers.
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