Last Wednesday, an eight-story commercial building called Rana Plaza, in Savar, Bangladesh, collapsed suddenly with more than 3,000 garment industry workers inside. In the five days since, rescuers have been digging frantically, searching for survivors, rescuing hundreds. As of today, with the confirmed death toll nearing 400, attempts to locate any more survivors have been halted. Eight people have been arrested so far, including the owner of the illegally-constructed facility, who was apparently caught while trying to flee to India yesterday. In the days since the disaster, families displayed photographs as they gathered around the destroyed building, hundreds of their loved ones still listed as missing.
Rescue Efforts Halted at Collapsed Bangladesh Building
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Rescue workers attempt to rescue garment workers from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, in Savar, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 28, 2013. Hope for survivors under the rubble of a building that collapsed outside the capital of Bangladesh faded on Sunday. With more than 900 people still counted as missing fears grew that the death toll could rise far beyond the latest figures. #
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Workers and firefighters are shrouded in smoke as they prepare to dislodge the debris and fallen ceiling of the garment factory building which collapsed in Savar, on Monday April 29, 2013. #
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Bangladeshi garment workers help evacuate a survivor using lengths of textile as a slide to evacuate from the rubble after the building collapsed, on April 24, 2013. #
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People gather in front of Rana Plaza building as rescue workers continue their operations in Savar, on April 25, 2013. Survivors from the garment factory that collapsed described a deafening bang and tremors before the eight-floor building crashed down around them. #
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Bodies of victims of the building collapse lie numbered in a row in Savar, on April 24, 2013. Rescuers tried to cut through the debris with earthmovers, drilling machines and their bare hands. #
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People gather in a neighboring under-construction building to watch the rescue operation of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, 30 km (19 miles) outside Dhaka, on April 27, 2013. #
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Bangladeshi relatives of workers missing in the building that collapsed on Wednesday hold pictures of loved ones at a makeshift morgue in a schoolyard in Savar, on April 27, 2013. #
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Rescue workers, army personnel, police and members of media run after they heard someone shouting that a building next to Rana Plaza was collapsing, during a rescue operation in Savar, on April 26, 2013. The building next to Rana Plaza did not collapse. #
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Curious onlookers and relatives of missing victims watch from behind a makeshift fence as workers start dislodging parts of the garment factory building which collapsed in Savar, on April 29, 2013. #
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A survivor is carried into an ambulance while surrounded by onlookers, after being rescued from the garment factory building that collapsed in Savar, on Sunday, April 28, 2013. A fire broke out late Sunday in the wreckage of the garment factory that collapsed last week in Bangladesh, with smoke pouring from the piles of shattered concrete and some of the rescue efforts forced to stop. The fire came four days after the collapse, as rescuers were trying to free a woman they found trapped in the rubble. #
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Two young relatives of garment worker Mohammed Abdullah look into his coffin as family members collected his body at a makeshift morgue in a schoolyard near a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, on April 27, 2013. #
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Rescue workers evacuate a firefighter suffering from smoke inhalation during a fire which broke out in the collapsed building, on April 28, 2013. The fire broke out late Sunday in the wreckage of the garment factory, with smoke pouring from the piles of shattered concrete and some of the rescue efforts forced to stop. #
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Laboni Khanam, a garment worker rescued from the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building, lies on a a bed at Enam Medical College in Savar, on April 28, 2013. Workers rescued Laboni, who worked in Phantom Apparel, from the rubble 36 hours after the building collapsed. #
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Mohammed Sohel Rana, the fugitive owner of an illegally-constructed building that collapsed last week in Bangladesh, killing hundreds, is paraded by Rapid Action Battalion commandos for the media along with unidentified alleged accomplices, not pictured, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 28, 2013. Rana was arrested near the border in Benapole in western Bangladesh, just as he was about to flee into India's West Bengal state, said Jahangir Kabir Nanak, junior minister for local government. #
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