Britain's discount clothing retail giant - Primark - has offered compensation and emergency food aid to victims of the Bangladesh factory collapse who worked for its supplier in the country.


"We have partnered with a local NGO to address the immediate needs of victims, including the provision of emergency food aid to families. This initiative began in Bangladesh immediately the extent of the disaster became clear," the firm, owned by Associated British Foods Plc, said in a statement.


"Primark will also pay compensation to the victims of this disaster who worked for its supplier. This will include the provision of long-term aid for children who have lost parents, financial aid for those injured and payments to the families of the deceased," the statement added.


At least 386 people were killed in the disaster in Savar, near Dhaka, last week when the eight-storey Rana Plaza housing garment factories supplying retailers in the Western world collapsed.