RICIN CASE CLAIMS NEW SUSPECT

in the week, as investigators searched his primary residence in Tupelo, Mr. dutschke told The Associated Press, “I don’t know how much more of this I can take.”

“I’m a patriotic American. I don’t have any grudges against anybody ... I did not send the letters,” Mr. dutschke said.

Mr. Curtis’ attorney, Christi McCoy, said Saturday: “We are relieved but also saddened. This crime is nothing short of diabolical. I have seen a lot of meanness in the past two decades, but this stops me in my tracks.”

Some of the language in the letters was similar to posts on Mr. Curtis’ Facebook page and they were signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.” Mr. Curtis’s sign-off online was often similar.

And Mr. dutschke and Mr. Curtis were acquainted. Mr. Curtis said they had talked about possibly publishing a book on a conspiracy that Mr. Curtis insists he has uncovered to sell body parts on a black market. But he said they later had a feud.

Mr. Curtis’s attorneys have said they believe their client was set up. An FBI agent testified that no evidence of ricin was found in searches of Mr. Curtis’s home. Mr. Curtis’s attorney Hal Neilson said the defence gave authorities a list of people who may have had a reason to hurt Mr. Curtis’s and Mr. dutschke came up.

Judge Holland also is a common link between the two men, and both know Mr. Wicker.

Judge Holland was the presiding judge in a 2004 case in which Mr. Curtis was accused of assaulting a Tupelo attorney a year earlier. Judge Holland sentenced him to six months in the county jail. He served only part of the sentence, according to his brother.

And Judge Holland’s family has had political skirmishes with Mr. dutschke. Her son, Steve Holland, a democratic state representative, said he thinks his mother’s only other encounter with Mr. dutschke was at a rally in the town of Verona in 2007, when Mr. dutschke ran as a republican against Steve Holland.

Mr. Holland said his mother confronted Mr. dutschke after he made a derogatory speech about the Holland family. She demanded that he apologize, which Mr. Holland says he did.

On Saturday, Steve Holland said he can’t say for certain that Mr. dutschke is the person who sent the letter to his mother but added, “I feel confident the FBI knows what they are doing.”

“We’re ready for this long nightmare to be over,” Mr. Holland told The Associated Press. Property tycoon Sohel Rana is presented at a press conference by police in Dhaka on Sunday. Police arrested the owner of the garment factory block that collapsed last week killing more than 375 people amid fading hopes of finding survivors. A young woman gave birth while trapped underneath the rubble of the garment factory that collapsed in the Bangladeshi city of dhaka last week, killing more than 370 people. A rescuer has told

how the search party he was in found the woman and her newborn under a tangle of concrete pillars.

“The lady who gave birth to a baby boy was rescued on Wednesday after six hours,” said didar Hossain.

“She gave birth while inside the building. She was about 26 or 27 years old. When we found her, she said, ‘Please save my baby first’. ”

Mr. Hossain said she did not appear to have suffered any serious injuries and was rescued from the debris, reunited with relatives and taken to her family’s home.

“The baby was crying,” he added. “The umbilical chord was still there. After bringing them out, we placed the baby in a cloth. There were other women around who took the responsibility to cut the umbilical cord.”

The woman’s tale of survival was one of a number of miraculous escape stories that emerged Saturday. They included a cluster of 40 survivors who were pulled out unhurt from a half-collapsed room beneath the tangled concrete and steel beams.

They were discovered alive at 1:30 a.m. Saturday by a group of 12 volunteers. They had survived for more than 72 hours trapped in temperatures of 95F (35C) without food or water. “They were not injured much but of course they had become very weak,” said one rescuer. “By 3:30 a.m. we had managed to bring all of them out. Most of them said that they didn’t need to be sent to hospital.”

One of those rescued was Mojibur rahman, whose relations had kept a vigil outside the building, holding photographs of him.

“He is fine now,” said his brother, Norbat.

“He says that he was behind the main pillar, so when the roof collapsed, he was saved. He was not injured but is in hospital as he is very weak. One thing he says again and again is that due to ‘the fear that I have experienced now, I will not be scared of dying’.”

details of the rescue emerged as two factory bosses and two engineers were detained by police investigating how the building collapsed.

Officials said that the rana Plaza factory had been built on spongy ground without the correct permits, and that workers were sent in on Wednesday despite having been warned the day before that it was structurally unsafe.

Anger at the alleged negligence has prompted days of protests, with police using tear gas, water cannons and rubber bullets yesterday to quell dem- onstrators who torched cars.

Anger over working conditions for Bangladesh’s 3.6-million garment workers — most of whom are women earning as little as $38 a month — has grown since the disaster.

An alliance of Leftist parties, part of the ruling coalition, said that it would call a national strike later this week if all those responsible for the disaster were not arrested shortly. In Britain, protesters staged a demonstration outside the London flagship store of Primark, which was supplied with cheap clothing by the factory. A petition has now been launched calling for Primark and other brands to compensate the families of the workers killed or injured.

Campaigners also want Primark, along with the stores Matalan and Mango, which used the building, to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement to improve factory conditions.

The factory’s collapse was the third large-scale industrial incident in five months in Bangladesh, the secondlargest exporter of garments in the world. In November, a fire at a clothes factory killed 112 people.