Six dead in Philadelphia building collapse

Philadelphia: Philadelphia's mayor says the collapse of a downtown building that was being demolished has killed six people.

Mayor Michael Nutter discussed the accident and the search and rescue attempts on Wednesday night.

Fire officials earlier had reported one woman was killed and 13 people were injured in the accident. But body bags were removed from the rubble hours later.

Death toll in B'desh building collapse reaches 290

The death toll in the collapse of an eight-storey commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital today rose to 290, as rescuers looked for last survivors under tonnes of debris at suburban Savar.

"We have retrieved so far 290 bodies and rescued alive some 2100 people... We now look for the last survivors under the debris (of Rana Plaza)," a fire service official told PTI.

He said at least two dozen people were still expected to be alive under the concrete garbage and rescuers now mobilised their efforts to salvage them discarding the dead ones as time was running out for their survival.