RESCUE teams were desperately tearing through the rubble of a collapsed nine-storey clothes factory in Bangladesh with their hands last night where 200 people are believed to be trapped.

A nine-storey clothes factory in Bangladesh collapsed following a boiler explosion early today, killing at least four people and trapping at least 200 others.

A fire raged through a crowded downtown Dhaka, Bangladesh, market yesterday, gutting nearly 1,800 bamboo and tin shops, killing at least one person and injuring nearly 15 others, a fire official said.

A fire raged through a crowded downtown Dhaka market today, gutting nearly 1,800 bamboo and tin shops, killing at least one person and injuring nearly 15 others, a fire official said.