Time running out in search for factory disaster survivors

RESCUE workers frantically trying to reach 90 people trapped under the rubble of a collapsed factory in Bangladesh warned yesterday that time was running out to find survivors, as the death toll reached 25.

Firefighters, police and army engineers used shovels and their bare hands in a desperate search for anyone still alive after the nine-storey building fell early on Monday, while officials said cries for help from beneath the rubble had stopped.

Around 100 people have been brought out alive but the rescue operation was being hampered by a lack of concrete cutting equipment.