The fugitive owner of an illegally constructed building that collapsed in Bangladesh in a deadly heap last week was captured at a border crossing with India by members of a commando force.

Police in Bangladesh arrested two owners of a garment factory in a shoddily-constructed building that collapsed this week, killing at least 324 people, as protests spread to a second city today with hundreds of people throwing stones and setting fire to vehicles.

Two owners of garment factories in a Bangladesh building that collapsed have been arrested as public fury mounts over the accident that left at least 324 dead.

Crews bored deeper into the wreckage of a collapsed garment-factory building in Bangladesh today, hoping for miracle rescues which would stop the death toll rising much higher.

Survivors from a garment factory that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 260 people described a deafening bang and tremors before the eight-floor building crashed down under them.

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-story building that housed garment factories and shops collapsed in Bangladesh yesterday, killing nearly 100 people and injuring more than 1,000.

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.

Three officials at a Bangladesh factory where 112 workers died in a fire have been arrested on suspicion of locking staff inside.

The fire alarm was waved off by managers.

Thousands of Bangladeshi workers demanding justice took to the streets today as the full horror of a clothes factory blaze that killed at least 112 people emerged.

Eighteen more bodies have been pulled from the devastated headquarters of Bangladesh’s border guards, following a two-day revolt against superior officers that left at least 40 people dead.

The strain of bird flu deadly to humans was today detected at a state-run poultry farm near the Bangladeshi capital where workers recently slaughtered about 30,000 chickens, the government said.

A speeding bus plunged into a canal outside the Bangladeshi capital today, leaving 14 people dead and about 25 others injured.

Bangladeshi authorities today stepped up security across the country in preparation for the 34th anniversary of independence, won in a bloody civil war with Pakistan, officials said.

At least eight factory workers were killed and some 70 others injured today after a packed bus collided with a second bus near Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka.

The death toll from a collapsed Bangladeshi garment factory climbed to 69 today as rescuers recovered nine more bodies from its ruins, a rescue official said.

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.