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10 Nov 2015

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Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters

Death toll from Pakistan factory collapse reaches 44

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The death toll from the collapse of a Pakistani factory has reached 44, rescue officials said on Sunday, nearly five days after one of the country's deadliest industrial accidents in recent years.More than 100 injured survivors were pulled from the rubble after the factory collapsed on Wednesday night, but no one had been recovered alive since Friday night, said Dr Zulfiqar Ahmad, the executive district officer health Lahore...There were 160 to 175 factory workers and more construction workers inside the building when it collapsed, said Kamran Ali, a factory official at the site.Survivors said the factory's owner, who was adding a new floor to the building, had ignored advice from his contractor and pleas from his workers to stop construction after large cracks appeared in the building following last month's 7.5 magnitude earthquake.

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