Summary Two owners of garment factories in Dhaka have surrendered themselves to police on Saturday.
DHAKA (Online): Two owners of garment factories in the building that collapsed on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have surrendered to police on Saturday.
Mahbubur Rahman Tapas and Balzul Samad Adnan are suspected of forcing their staff to work in the building, ignoring warnings about cracks.
At least 323 people died after the eight-storey Rana Plaza building in the suburb of Savar collapsed on Wednesday.
On Saturday morning, at least 24 more people were rescued from the rubble.
Rescuers and volunteers, who worked through the night, cheered as they were brought to safety.
Reports said one woman was crying as she emerged into the light on what was once the roof of the building.
She was brought up by rope from deep inside the rubble and then carried away on a stretcher, he said.
Earlier, rescue teams said they had located about 40 survivors on the collapsed third and fifth floors of the building.
Officials said they were working to extricate the remaining survivors and had passed oxygen cylinders and water to those still trapped.
More than 3,000 people are believed to have been working in the building at the time of the collapse and about 600 are still missing.
Tapas and Adnan, the owners of the New Wave Buttons and New Wave Style factories, turned themselves in to police in the early hours of Saturday.
Deputy chief of Dhaka police Shyami Mukherjee said the two are accused of causing "death due to negligence".
The owners reportedly told their employees to return to work on Wednesday, even though cracks were visible in the building a day earlier.
Three other clothing factories were reportedly operating in the building.
The owner of Rana Plaza is believed to have gone into hiding.
"Those who re involved, especially the owner who forced the workers to work there, will be punished," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told lawmakers.
"Wherever he is, he will be found and brought to justice," the prime minister added.
There is widespread anger in Bangladesh over the disaster and fresh clashes between police and protesters erupted again on Saturday.
