About 100 workers were feared trapped on Thursday when a cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh.
\nFive people were confirmed dead. Rescuers also pulled about 40 survivors from the debris after the factory, run by a subsidiary of the Bangladesh army, collapsed in the port town of Mongla, 335 km (210 miles) southwest of the capital, Dhaka.
\n\u201cThere were about 150 people, including workers, inside the factory building when it collapsed,\u201d said Belayet Hossain, the officer in charge of the Mongla Port police station near the factory.
\nSoldiers and sailors were helping firemen to search for survivors, another official said.
\n\u201cThere are more bodies inside the debris. We\u2019re trying to recover the living people first,\u201d said district administration official Mohammad Abdus Samad.
\nBangladesh has a poor record for building safety.
\nA complex of shops and small factories collapsed in 2013 killing more than 1,130 people, most of them garment workers.
\nThe collapse of Rana Plaza, built on swampy ground outside the capital, Dhaka, ranked among the world\u2019s worst industrial accidents and sparked a global outcry for improved safety in the world\u2019s second-largest exporter of ready-made garments.<\/p>\n