(25 Apr 2013) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of large crowd of locals and garment workers gathered in front of collapsed building in the Dhaka suburb of Savar
2. Various of large group of garment workers chanting slogans and throwing stones at security personnel
3. Mid of protesters, man in foreground holding stick
4. Tracking shot of soldiers and volunteers holding sticks charging towards protesters
5. Mid of rescuers breaking slabs from collapsed building
6. Wide of scene with rescuers
7. Wide of rescuers and local people moving slab and debris
8. Wide of ambulance rushing towards hospital carrying injured people
STORYLINE
Thousands of garment factory workers in Bangladesh's Savar industrial zone took to the streets on Thursday to protest poor safety standards after a factory collapse on Wednesday killed at least 238 people.
Large crowds gathered outside the collapsed factory on Thursday.
Soldiers and volunteers, many of them carrying sticks, worked to disperse the protesters.
Meanwhile, rescuers were still searching for survivors after the eight story building housing garment factories collapsed near the Bangladeshi capital.
Hundreds of rescuers, some crawling through the maze of rubble in search of survivors and corpses, worked amid the cries of the trapped and the wails of workers' relatives gathered outside.
The disaster came less than five months after a blaze killed 112 people in a garment factory and underscored the unsafe conditions faced by Bangladesh's garment workers, who produce clothes for global brands worn around the world.
After cracks were reported in the structure on Tuesday, managers of a local bank that also had an office in the building evacuated their workers.
However, the garment factories remained in operation despite warnings from industrial police.
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association had also asked the factories to suspend work starting on Wednesday morning, hours before the collapse.
The garment manufacturers group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers but it was not clear how many workers were in the building when it collapsed.
By late Thursday morning a total of 2,000 people had been rescued from the wreckage, according to officials.
Brig. Gen. Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing army rescue teams, said the death toll had climbed to 238 by Thursday evening.
The country has about 4,000 garment factories that export clothes to leading Western retailers and the industry wields vast power in the South Asian nation.
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