Death toll from Bangladesh factory collapse passes 900

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   Munir Uz Zaman / AFP - Getty ImagesGarment workers who were employed in the factory that collapsed wait in line to claim their pay Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.DHAKA, Bangladesh — The death toll from a garment factory building that  collapsed outside the Bangladesh capital has climbed past 900, as recovery  workers continue pulling bodies from the wreckage more than two weeks after the  disaster.

Officials say 912 bodies have been recovered from the rubble  of the fallen eight-story building as of Thursday morning.

An army  official says 100 badly decomposing bodies being kept at a makeshift morgue near  the building site in a Dhaka suburb will be sent to hospitals for DNA testing.

It is not clear what the final toll will be from the disaster, already  the world's deadliest garment industry disaster and one of the worst industrial  accidents.

More than 2,500 people were rescued alive after the April 24  accident. An unknown number of people were inside.

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