Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested the owner of a garment factory block that collapsed last week killing more than 370 people as he attempted to flee to India

Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested the owner of a garment factory block that collapsed last week killing more than 370 people as he attempted to flee to India, officials said.
  
"He has been arrested and will be tried," the country's deputy home minister Shamsul Haque Tuku told reporters, referring to Sohel Rana, allegedly a ruling party official, whose building violated the country's construction code.
  
The head of the country's Rapid Action Battalion police force, Mukhlesur Rahman, told AFP: "Rana has been arrested from the Benapole border. He's being flown back to Dhaka in a helicopter." Benapole is Bangladesh's main border post with India.
  
Three owners of factories inside the destroyed eight-storey Rana Plaza building were arrested on Saturday and face charges of "causing death due to negligence".

The accident has prompted fresh accusations from activists that Western firms place profit before safety by sourcing their products from a country where textile workers often earn less than $40 a month.

Protesters holding signs reading "Love Fashion Hate Sweatshops" and "Primark's Shame" picketed Primark's flagship store in London on Saturday.

As outrage over the country's worst industrial disaster spread at home and abroad, police have stepped up efforts to find the accused and border officials have been put on the highest alert.