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(7 May 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Various of garment workers, survivors of collapsed building, demanding their salaries
2. Police marching towards protest spot
3. Police officer trying to calm workers
4. Group of women protesters sitting on road
5. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Asma Begum, Garment worker:
"Salaries for four months and 13 days must be paid. Why do they want to pay only one month's salary? Why? In that case we do not want the salaries. Rather they must return the lost person to their mother. We want this. This is our demand to the government."
6. Various of bulldozers removing debris from collapsed building
7. Fire fighter spraying water over debris
8. Various of rescuers recovering body at site
9. Various of rescuers carrying stretcher to place where some bodies were found
10. Wide of rescuers carrying corpse from site
11. Wide of soldiers scattering powder over bodies
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of survivors of last month's collapse of a building housing garment factories in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, demanded compensation on Tuesday.
The protest came as the death toll from the country's worst-ever industrial disaster passed 700.
The police control room overseeing the recovery operation said the death toll stood at 705 on Tuesday afternoon, as workers pulled more bodies out of the wreckage of the eight-storey building that was packed with workers at five garment factories when it collapsed on 24 April.
No one knows what the final toll will be, as the exact number of people inside Rana Plaza at the time of the collapse was unknown.
More than 2,500 people were rescued alive.
Hundreds of garment workers who survived the disaster blocked a major highway near the accident site in a Dhaka suburb on Tuesday to demand the payment of wages and other benefits.
No violence was reported, although traffic was disrupted for hours.
The workers, many who made little more than the national minimum wage of about 38 US dollars per month, are demanding at least four months in salary.
"Salaries for four months and 13 days must be paid. Why do they want to pay only one month's salary? Why?," said protester Asma Begum.
The workers had set Tuesday as the deadline for the payment of wages and other benefits.
Bangladesh earns nearly 20 (b) billion US dollars a year from exports of the garment products, mainly to the United States and Europe.
Authorities have not set any specific time-frame to complete the recovery operation at the building site, saying they will continue until all bodies and debris are removed.
Officials say the building's owner illegally added three floors to Rana Plaza and allowed the garment factories to install heavy machines and generators.


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