'Rescuers carry a survivor pulled out from the Rana Plaza rubble after 77 hours'. On 24 April 2013, an eight-story building collapsed in Savar, Dhaka, killing more than 1,100 people. Rana Plaza, which housed five garment factories, had been designed with only six stories. Two further stories had been added, and the collapse was in part blamed on the weight and vibration of the garment factories’ heavy machinery. Rana Plaza had been briefly shut down the day before, when cracks appeared in its walls and pillars, but factory workers had been called back in, hours before the building fell.