Bangladesh police arrested the engineer warned that the building housing the garment factory is unsafe the day before collapsed, killing at least 487 people were killed.
Khan Rana Plaza owners in official Ohiduzzaman Abdul Razak consultancy work when the boss illegally added on top of three of his five-story building, police said Friday. Khan arrested on Thursday or omissions.
The owner Mohammed Sohel Rana called Khan inspection, development and construction of the cracks in the April 23, local media have reported. Sweating a private television station, he said after checking, he told Rana to evacuate the building, because it is not safe.
Near the former engineer Sava Jahangirnagar University, Khan said that he drew the attention of the Government Engineer building further examination.
Police ordered the construction of evacuation, but witnesses said Rana told the people gathered outside the next morning, the building is safe, garment factory manager told workers to go inside. It collapsed hours later.
The police officials Ohiduzzaman said Khan was arrested omissions.
Sava municipalities, the Muhammad Refatullah elected mayor has also suspended the approval destined to the design and layout of the building, on suspicion of negligence, a senior official of the local government ministries, Abu Alam.
Alam said the official investigation found that the approved design and layout of the mayor ignore the rules. The mayor is from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, criticism and opposition of France suspended politically motivated.
Authorities confirmed death toll rose to 487 late Friday morning to provide a $ 20 billion dollar global retailer in Bangladesh garment industry the most deadly disaster.
Workers carefully use a crane to remove the concrete rubble.
"We remain cautious, so that we get the body intact, said: Major General Hassan Chowdhury Suhwardy,, supervision and rescue operations, the area commander of the army garrison.
149, the official number of missing people is still in the although unofficial estimates higher.
Rana had earlier been arrested, and is expected to be charged with negligence, illegal buildings and forcing workers to participate in the work, which is punishable by up to seven years in prison. The authorities did not say if more serious crimes will be added.
Bangladesh High Court has ordered the government to confiscate the property of the Rana and freeze its assets frog Plaza factory owners, so the money can be used to pay the wages of their workers.
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