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.

Injured and hungry, families huddled under makeshift tents waiting for relief supplies today after Pakistan’s worst earthquake wiped out entire villages, buried roads in rubble and knocked out electricity and water supplies. The death toll ranged from 20,000 and 30,000 and is expected to rise.

RESCUERS struggled to reach remote, mountainous areas and stricken residents of a devastated city scavenged for food and gasoline yesterday, a day after a massive earthquake struck Pakistan and India.

Lightning has killed 10 people and 30 fishermen are missing at sea in rainstorms that have flattened nearly 100 mud-and-thatch houses in southern Bangladesh.