For many days, rescue workers plowing
through the site of last month’s building collapse in Bangladesh had the
grim task of pulling out body after body.
On
Friday, as the recovery operation wound down, they found a survivor.
Crews digging through the rubble heard a woman’s voice pleading for
help.
“I’m
alive,” she said, according to Capt. Ibrahim Islam, a Bangladeshi
military official outside the site of the recovery operation. “Please
rescue me.”
They extracted the woman in an hourlong operation, an army official said.
Crowds converged to watch and pray at the grim site as she chatted with rescuers who rushed her to a hospital.
Her name is Reshma. And she’s one of the more than 2,400 people pulled out of the rubble alive.
The
discovery comes more than two weeks after a building in a Bangladesh
complex, housing factories full of garment workers, caved in, South
Asia’s deadliest industrial disaster.
Rescue
and recovery workers searched through the nine-story building’s tangled
wreckage in Savar, a suburb of the capital, Dhaka. During the first
several days of dangerous and painstaking work, crews rescued a couple
thousand people.
But since then, they haven’t found any more survivors — until Friday when Reshma was spotted.
As
more bodies were recovered Friday, the total number of people confirmed
dead rose to 1,039, said Maj. Zihadul Islam, a fire service official.
The
past 11 days have focused on the grim task of retrieving dead bodies
still buried in the heap of broken concrete, many of them so severely
decomposed that authorities struggle to identify them.
“We are near the end,” Ibrahim Islam said.
The
owners of the building and the factories are under investigation over
accusations they ordered workers to enter the premises on the day of the
collapse despite cracks in the structure the day before.
CNN
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