Many factories in Savar and across the country were built without permits, officials say.
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He started the Bangladesh tour with 152 not out in a practice match at Savar.
Some 2, 000 people were in the Rana Plaza building in Savar when it collapsed suddenly on Wednesday morning.
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Kernaghan visits the country on average three times a year and has interviewed Savar factory workers in their homes.
On Tuesday, large crowds gathered in Savar to mourn the victims of the collapse - Bangladesh's worst industrial tragedy.
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The building, in Savar, a commercial hub just north of Dhaka, "did not receive planning permission, " Mr. Mannan said.
WSJ: Bangladesh Factory Lacked Building Permits, Officials Say
Mr. Rana instead obtained permission from Savar's mayor to build the commercial complex, which housed five textile factories, a bank and shops.
WSJ: Bangladesh Factory Lacked Building Permits, Officials Say
He was known locally as an ally of Refayet Ullah, the longtime mayor of Savar, according to several people with knowledge of the matter.
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But in the streets of Savar, many note that while three managers have been arrested in connection with the Tazreen fire, the factory owner remains free.
At least there, she said, she won't have to pay rent and buy food, as she does here in Savar, an industrial center north of the capital, Dhaka.
Abdul Halim, an official with Savar's engineering department, said the owner of Rana Plaza was originally allowed to construct a five-story building but added another three stories illegally.
Savar Mayor Refayet Ullah told The Wall Street Journal that his office had issued a permit to Mr. Rana without seeking required permission from the Dhaka building-safety agency.
WSJ: Bangladesh Factory Lacked Building Permits, Officials Say
The next year, New Wave Style expanded to a 40, 000-square-foot space in Rana Plaza, located in Savar, a former agricultural area on Dhaka's outskirts that was fast becoming a garment-industry boomtown.
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More than two weeks after the building in the suburb of Savar came crashing down, workers with cranes and other heavy equipment were still pulling apart the rubble and finding more bodies.
Elsewhere, many thousands of workers from the hundreds of garment factories across the Savar industrial zone and other nearby industrial areas took to the streets to protest the collapse and poor safety standards.
Salvage workers said they had reached the basement of the building in Savar, a commercial hub about 10 miles north of the capital Dhaka, and were unlikely to recover significant numbers of new bodies.
Zahidur Rahman, director of public relations at Enam Medical College and Hospital, said by Wednesday evening 87 people had been confirmed dead in the collapse at the building in the Dhaka suburb of Savar.
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) More than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris Friday, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and concrete.
The garment manufacturers' group said the factories in the building employed 3, 122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed Wednesday in Savar, a suburb of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.
About 2, 000 people gathered at an athletic field in Savar for the payments, but the process was slow because many had no identity cards, Faruk Hossain, an inspector for the Industrial Police, was quoted as saying.
Hasan Suhrawardy, who is coordinating the cleanup, said workers had cleared most of the debris above ground and expected to wrap up by the end of this week, turning over the site to Savar's local administration.
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital Wednesday morning, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more in a jumbled mess of shattered concrete and bricks, officials said.
Although some 2, 200 people have been rescued from the Rana Plaza building in Savar since it collapsed suddenly on Wednesday morning - with more than 40 being rescued in the last 24 hours - hundreds of people are still missing.
Before the collapse, Rana was little known outside of the few blocks of his tiny empire, a grid of poorly paved streets in the crowded industrial suburb of Savar, built up over the past decade or so around hundreds of garment factories.
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SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building outside of Bangladesh's capital was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered in a hospital Saturday, but was in generally good condition, according to her doctors.
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) When the cracks in the building appeared early Tuesday afternoon, a stocky man in his early 30s, a feared political operative who a neighbor says dropped out of school in seventh grade, quickly arrived at the scene in this crowded industrial suburb of the capital.
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