100 trapped, at least 4 killed after roof collapse at Bangladesh cement factory

About 100 workers are feared trapped after cement factory collapsed in Bangladesh. Police said four people have been 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 southwest of the capital, Dhaka.

There were about 150 people, including workers, inside the factory building when it collapsed.

Belayet Hossain, the officer in charge of the Mongla Port police station near the factory

District administration official Mohammad Abdus Samad said there were more bodies inside the debris, but that rescue efforts were focused on the living. Soldiers and sailors were helping firemen to search for survivors, another official said. Bangladesh has a poor record for building safety. A complex of shops and small factories collapsed in 2013 killing more than 1,130 people, most of them garment workers.

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