British clothes retailer Primark will pay a further $10m (€7m) in compensation to victims of the collapse of a Bangladeshi factory last year that killed more than 1,100 people.

Primark is to begin paying nine million US dollars in long-term compensation to victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse that killed more than 1,100 people in Bangladesh last April.

Rescue workers in Bangladesh have given up hope of finding any more survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed five days ago and began using heavy machinery to remove the rubble and look for bodies, an official said.

The death toll from a building collapse in Bangladesh has risen to 149 as rescuers worked to find more people trapped in the rubble, officials said.