The number of people known to have died in last month's factory collapse in Bangladesh has now risen to over one thousand.

Two and a half weeks on, bodies are still being pulled from the rubble of the eight-storey textiles plant on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.

The incident has been branded the country's worst industrial disaster.

Bangladesh's largest industrial disaster sparked outrage among workers in the country.

Several people, including the building's owner, have been arrested.

Many of the bodies recovered this week were so decomposed, they were being sent to a lab for DNA identification, the AP news agency reports.

Officials say about 2,500 people were injured in the collapse and that 2,437 people have been rescued.

Fire at second factory

Yesterday, at least eight people have been killed in a fire which has swept through a clothes factory in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

Bangladesh has shut down 18 garment plants for safety reasons since the Rana Plaza disaster, the Bangladeshi textile minister has confirmed.