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"There's a man in there. He's been trapped for five days." Andrew North goes inside the Dhaka ruins as time runs out.
Rescue work on a collapsed building in Bangladesh has entered a sixth day, but officials say they no longer expect to find any survivors.
Heavy lifting gear is now being used to raise slabs of concrete at the Rana Plaza garment factory, where at least 380 died after Wednesday's collapse.
A fire disrupted rescue work on Sunday.
The owner of the building is facing charges of negligence, along with two government engineers who were involved in approving its design.
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On Monday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the site for the first time, as well as visiting some of the survivors in hospital.
Bangladesh news site BDNews24 said she had assured the injured they would receive help from the government.
At least 3,000 are estimated to have been in the Rana Plaza building when it collapsed. About 2,430 are now known to have survived but hundreds are dead or missing.
On Sunday night, rescuers working deep inside the rubble were told to leave, as cranes were brought in to lift heavy blocks of fallen concrete.
What Bangladesh's media are saying
An editorial in the Daily Star says it is "unfortunate" that Bangladeshi garment manufacturers "have convoluted the idea of 'competitive' and 'cheap'. And while the producers have been trying to be so, it is the workers that have been bearing the brunt of this in terms of poor wages and through their lives."
Also in the Daily Star, Hameeda Hossain writes: "Even as we mourn the dead, whose poorly paid labour contributed to profits from Bangladesh' export garments, it is time to question why the state has repeatedly ignored violation of laws, why regulatory mechanisms fail to monitor systemic failures, why political patronage confers impunity for corporate crimes."
Muhammad Q Islam writes for bdnews24 that the disaster could be a sign Bangladesh needs to rethink its economic model: "Despite gains, we still have a 47 million strong army of very poor people who will be willing to take all the risks that culminate in injury and death, both at home and abroad, to improve their lot. Our economic policies explicitly rely on continued availability of this work force to fuel our economic growth."
Fariha Sarawat says in the Dhaka Tribune that while buyers should take some moral responsibility for such disasters "the state aids and abates this hostile environment by repeatedly siding with the interests of the manufacturers, instead of the workers - it has failed to punish a single manufacturer whose negligence and greed have resulted in the death of workers".
"We are proceeding cautiously. If there is still a soul alive, we will try to rescue that person,'' army spokesman Shahinul Islam told reporters.
"We are giving the highest priority to saving people, but there is little hope of finding anyone alive."
Fire brigade chief Brig Gen Ali Ahmed Khan said crews had seen bodies lying on the ground inside, but that "no-one was seen alive".
Rescue co-ordinators said that work with heavy-lifting gear would be done carefully to avoid mutilating bodies trapped under the debris.
Rubble fireOn Sunday afternoon, a fire halted rescue work at the building. The presence of clothing in the garment factory may have worsened the blaze, correspondents say.
Four firefighters were taken to hospital.
The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan says rescuers had been trying to free a trapped woman for a number of hours when the fire began, but they later reported she had not survived.
Building owner Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested on Sunday near the Indian border.
He had gone on the run after the eight-storey building collapsed, with several thousand workers inside.
According to the head of the team which tracked down Mr Rana, he had hidden in several places since disappearing.
Bangladesh's economy
- A total population of some 150.4m, 88% under the age of 55.
- GDP in 2012 was around $110bn - the ready-made garment (RMG) industry makes up 80% of all exports, totalling more than $15bn in 2012-13 financial year.
- About four million people are directly employed in the RMG industry, most of them women, earning an average monthly salary of roughly $40.
"He went into hiding in different areas and changed locations regularly. Besides Dhaka, he stayed in two or three districts outside of the city," said Mokhlesur Rahman of the Rapid Action Battalion
"He reached the border with India. There was a possibility that he could have managed to escape into India within a very short space of time.
"Based on a tip-off, we hurriedly flew to Jessore in a helicopter. He was arrested at the checkpoint at Benapole in Jessore."
Bangladeshi TV later showed Mr Rana in handcuffs after being flown back to Dhaka by helicopter.
Local government minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak announced the arrest by loudspeaker at the site of the collapse, to cheers from rescue workers.
A total of six people, including three owners of factories operating in the building, have now been arrested.
Anger at the building's collapse has triggered days of violent protests in Dhaka.
Bangladesh has one of the largest garment industries in the world, providing cheap clothing for major Western retailers that benefit from its widespread low-cost labour.
But the industry has been widely criticised for its low pay and limited rights given to workers and for the often dangerous working conditions in garment factories.
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