Police ordered a Bangladesh garment building with deep cracks visible in the walls evacuated the day before its deadly collapse, but the factories flouted the order, officials say.

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.

An eight-storey building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh’s capital this morning, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more in the rubble, officials said.