Owners of Bangladesh clothing factory which collapsed killing 324 are arrested as police struggle to contain second day of rioting

Police in Bangladesh have arrested two owners of a garment factory that collapsed this week, killing at least 324 people.
Protests spread to a second city today with hundreds of people throwing stones and setting fire to vehicles.
Police also detained for questioning two engineers who were involved in approving the design of the eight-story building.
The wife of the building owner, who is on the run, was also detained in an attempt to force him to surrender.
Rescue workers continued to bring badly decomposed bodies out of the tangled mess of concrete, bricks and steel amid frenzied efforts to pull out remaining survivors, more than three days after the building came down in the worst tragedy to hit Bangladesh's garment industry.

Owners of the collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory are led away by police. Police have made five arrests today

Two arrested owners of the garment factory that collapsed outside the capital, are today escorted to an appearance at the court in Dhaka

People gather in an under-construction building to watch the rescue operation of the collapsed building

Angry workers shout slogans in the streets as they protest against the killing of the workers at Rana Plaza

Protestors light fires in the streets. Rescue workers continue to search the rubble for survivors and bodies. They said 'We are not thinking of wrapping up of our effort any time soon'

Rescurers work at the site of the building that collapsed last Wednesday. A huge section of an eight-story building that housed several garment factories splintered into a pile of concrete

People pick through the Savar building wreckage, trying to release people who were trapped alive in the rubble

Volunteers used lengths of fabric as a slide to move dead victims recovered from the rubble on the outskirts of Dhaka

Teams were going in from seven entry points gouged into the rubble.
Every once in a while a body would be brought out, covered in cloth and plastic, to a spot where ambulances were parked.

Workers furiously sprayed air-fresheners on the bodies to cover the stench, leaving the air thick with the smell of death and cheap perfume.
The bodies were kept at the nearby Adharchandra High School grounds before being handed over to families.
Many people milled around at the school, waving photos of their missing loved ones.

'We will continue our operation for more survivors as long as it is required. We are not thinking of wrapping up of our effort any time soon,' he said.

Angry workers set fire in the street as they protest against the killing of the workers at Savar, Bangladesh

Bangladeshi garment workers beat a driver for not stopping a bus he was driving, during a protest against the collapse of the eight-storey building that housed several garment factories

Rescue workers carry a garment worker, who was pulled alive from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, in Savar

Subrata Sarker, a fire service official, said he saw 12 survivors in one place, of whom three were pulled out.
'There are many (survivors) still there,' Mr Sarker said, during a break. Around him, soldiers, police and medical workers in lab coats swirled around in frenzied activity.
Police in riot gear formed a cordon around the site to keep away hundreds of protesters who have been venting their anger at the situation since Wednesday.
The protests have spread outside Savar, a Dhaka suburb where the collapse happened.
Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and used sticks to disperse several hundred stone-throwing garment workers in Savar, a police official said.

Bangladeshi garment workers shout slogans and block a road in protest. Rescue workers pulled out 19 survivors out of the rubble today

Bangladeshi garment workers throw stones and vandalize an industrial police control room

Military spokesman Shahinul Islam said 324 bodies have been recovered and 2,419 survivors accounted for, including 19 who were pulled out today.
Clashes also erupted in other parts of Dhaka and in the south-eastern city of Chittagong where hundreds of garment workers took to the streets and vandalised vehicles.
Authorities shut down garment factories in Dhaka for fear of violence, which has persisted over demands that police arrest the owners of the factories and the building.
Junior Home Minister Shamsul Haque Tuku said police had arrested Bazlusamad, managing director of New Wave Apparels Ltd, and Mahmudur Rahman Tapash, the company chairman.
He told reporters that police had also detained the wife of Mohammed Sohel Rana, the owner of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, for questioning.

Bangladeshi garment workers beat a driver, second right, for not stopping a bus he was driving, during a protest

Relatives of the workers show photos of their missing ones in a play ground at Savar, Bangladesh

The top three floors of the eight-story building were illegally constructed.
Authorities are still searching for Rana, a local politician, who hasn't been seen publicly since the building collapsed. Negligence cases have been filed against him.
Police in Bangladesh often detain relatives of missing suspects as a way to pressure them to surrender.
Dhaka police superintendent Habibur Rahman said Rana was a local leader of ruling Awami League's youth front.
His arrest, and that of the factory owners, was ordered by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the Awami League leader.
Police said they detained for questioning two engineers, Imtemam Hossain and Alam Ali, on Saturday.
They did not say what role they played in approving the design of the building but it was clear that the arrests amounted to a widening crackdown.

PRIMARK URGED TO COMPENSATE GARMENT FACTORY VICTIMS

Protesters targeted Primark's London flagship store today to demand compensation for workers killed in Bangladesh.
The high street giant occupied a floor of the building and workers were suppliers to the brand.
A petition has now been launched calling for Primark and other retail brands which used the building to compensate the families of workers killed or injured.
Speaking outside Primark's Oxford Street store in central London, Murray Worthy, from campaign group War on Want, said: 'We're here to send a clear message to Primark that the 300 deaths in the Bangladesh building collapse were not an accident - they were entirely preventable deaths.
'If Primark had taken its responsibility to those workers seriously, no one need have died this week.'
Mr Worthy said there were reports of garment factory workers being told to return to work despite cracks being found in the building on Tuesday.
The campaign group are calling for a full inquiry into the collapse.
Campaigners also want Primark, with Matalan and Mango which used the building, to sign an agreement to end the 'appallingly unsafe factory conditions' in the country.
Mr Worthy said: 'Unfortunately we see things like this all too often. Just three months ago there was an enormous fire killing over 100 people so this isn't a one off.
'This is part of a pattern and it's a pattern that Primark needs to address.'

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