FORTY PEOPLE FOUND ALIVE AFTER DHAKA BUILDING COLLAPSE

Rescue workers search for trapped garment workers among the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building — Rescue efforts had been continuing since the collapse on Wednesday morning

MT NEWS: Forty people have been found alive in a room in the ruins of a building on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, a day after it collapsed.

Bangladeshi television broadcast images of the operation at the site of the collapse in the Savar area, which killed more than 220 people.

It is thought many more people may still be unaccounted for.

Police said the owners of factories in the building had ignored warnings about cracks appearing on Tuesday.

Teams from the army, the fire service and border guards have been working around the clock at the site to find survivors.

The news that 40 people had been found alive was greeted with jubilation at the scene, the BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.

One rescue official told the BBC that the group was found after they were heard screaming in the rubble.

Rescue teams have been dropping water bottles and food items to other survivors in the ruins. Time is now running out for their work, our correspondent says.