Bangladeshi building collapses killing 14

At least 14 people were killed when a four-storey building collapsed in Bangladesh's capital.

Army troops joined the rescue work in Dhaka after the apartment building collapsed, and many more people are feared crushed in nearby shanties.

Fire official Abdus Salam said some of those trapped were feared dead.

He said: "We see more people crushed under the debris," Salam said from the site of the accident in Dhaka's central Tejgaon district.

"So the death toll is likely to go up."

Another fire official said it was not known how many people were inside the building at the time of the accident.

The Cabinet minister in charge of overseeing local governments, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, said the government has ordered an investigation into the collapse.

Dhaka is a teeming city of more than 10 million people, and its many of the buildings are constructed without proper design and with poor materials.