Rana Plaza owner arrested at Indian border while trying to flee

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Local government minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak said Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested at the Indian border.

He has been in hiding since the Rana Plaza collapsed on Wednesday.

Rescuers are in a race against time to reach nine survivors as officials prepare to bring in heavy machinery to move the wreckage.

Mr Nanak said that Mohammed Sohel Rana was arrested near the land-crossing in Benapole along the border with India's West Bengal state and was being brought back to Dhaka by helicopter.

He made the announcement by loudspeaker at the site of the collapsed eight-storey building in the Dhaka suburb of Savar.

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