A Bangladesh court has ordered the government to confiscate the property of the owner of the collapsed garment factory building in which nearly 400 people died.

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.