Rescuers in Bangladesh had recovered at least 142 bodies by early Thursday from the rubble of a collapsed eight-storey building that housed mostly garment factories, media reports said.
More than 1,000 people were reported to have been injured in Wednesday’s collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka. A ninth floor was under construction at the time, Bangladesh’s Daily Star newspaper reported.
Many people were reported to be still trapped inside the remains of the building which had been compressed to the height of a two-storey building, the report said.
“We are going to bore holes through the roof and go inside,” said Brigadier General Mohammad Siddiqul Alam Sikder, who is in charge of the rescue operation. “We have to be extremely careful.”