5 Dead And 100 Trapped In Bangladesh Cement Factory Collapse

Rescuers were able to pull 40 survivors from the cement factory in Mongla.

Five people died and more than 30 were injured when an under-construction cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh on Thursday, local police station commander Mohammed Bilayat Hussain told BuzzFeed News.

Hussain also told Reuters: "There were about 150 people, including workers, inside the factory building when it collapsed."

The BBC and Reuters both reported that rescuers had pulled 40 survivors from the rubble of the factory, run by a subsidiary of the Bangladeshi army.

BBC's Jill McGivering: 40 factory workers in Bangladesh have been brought out of the collapsed factory. Four confirmed dead.

The factory is located in the port town of Mongla 335 km – about 210 miles – southwest of the country's capital Dhaka.

District administration official Mohammed Abdus Samad said the priority for the rescuers — which include firemen, soldiers and sailors — was rescuing survivors from the debris, according to Reuters.

"There are more bodies inside the debris. We're trying to recover the living people first," Samad said.

The country has a poor record of building safety. In 2013, 1,130 died in the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex outside the capital, Dhaka.

Additional reporting by Rega Jha.

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