Police in Bangladesh have arrested two clothing factory bosses based at the eight-storey building near the capital Dhaka that collapsed killing 348 people.
Two engineers - Imtemam Hossain and Alam Ali - involved in approving the design of the structure have also been detained for questioning.
Junior home minister Shamsul Haque Tuku said police had arrested Bazlus Samad, managing director of New Wave Apparels Ltd, and Mahmudur Rahaman Tapash, the company chairman. It is the largest of the five factories in the complex.
Police have filed a case against them for "death due to negligence", after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the owners forced the workers to return to work after cracks appeared in the building.
The wife of Mohammed Sohel Rana - the owner of the collapsed Rana Plaza building who has not been seen since the tragedy - has also been detained.
A survivor is carried to an ambulance on a stretcher The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association had asked the factories based in the structure to shut down on Wednesday morning, hours before the building came down.
"After we got the crack reports we asked them to suspend work until further examination, but they did not pay heed," said association president Atiqul Islam.
The arrests came after police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of clothing workers who took to the streets on the outskirts of Dhaka to protest over the deaths as clashes also erupted in the southeastern city of Chittagong.
There was no sign of the rescue operation being called off. Authorities pledged to continue the search after 29 people were pulled out alive on Saturday - more than three days after the building came down.
The rescue mission is continuing With time running out to save workers still trapped in the collapsed building, rescuers have been digging through mangled metal and concrete to find more survivors.
They finally reached the ground floor from the top of the mountainous rubble through 25 narrow holes they had drilled.
Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan, head of the fire service, said: "We are still getting a response from survivors, though they are becoming weaker slowly.
"The building is very vulnerable. Any time the floors could collapse. We are performing an impossible task, but we are glad that we are able to rescue so many survivors."
Protesters set fire to furniture from a police control room on Saturday The rescued have described hearing a loud crack just before the eight-storey building collapsed, with each level pancaking on top of those below.
The building housed at least four factories producing clothes for leading Western retailers.
High street giant Primark confirmed one of its suppliers occupied the second floor of the building.
Protesters held a demonstration outside the chain's flagship store in central London on Saturday to demand compensation for the workers who were killed.
The Primark protest in central London Speaking outside Primark's Oxford Street store, Murray Worthy of the War on Want group said: "We're here to send a clear message to Primark that the 300 deaths in the Bangladesh building collapse were not an accident - they were entirely preventable deaths."
A Primark spokesman said: "The company is shocked and deeply saddened by this appalling incident at Savar, near Dhaka, and expresses its condolences to all of those involved."
Elsewhere in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of workers walked out of their factories in solidarity with their dead colleagues.
Some workers' leaders attacked Western firms, whom they accused of turning "a blind eye" while using Bangladeshis as "money-making machines".
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