A Keighley man has been helping the victims of one of the deadliest ever industrial disasters.

More than 1,000 people are now known to have died when a building housing garments factories collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

Abdul Ahad, who is from Lawkholme, travelled to Bangladesh as part of the charity Al-Imdaad Foundation UK. The four-strong team took medical supplies and other items of relief aid to support those who survived the tragedy in the town of Savar.

Mr Ahad, 31, a civil servant who has now returned from his five-day stay in Bangladesh, said: “We focused on providing medical care, surgery and rehabilitation to the victims.

“The Bangladeshi security forces had sealed off the building site, but I was able view it from a distance. The recovery phase of the operation had begun, and trucks and bulldozers were clearing away huge pieces of concrete. There were hundreds of people unaccounted for and presumed dead. Their bodies were trapped in the debris.”

Al-Imdaad Foundation UK was launched in Keighley in December 2010.