Survivors still being pulled from building
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April 27, 2013, Saturday
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MORE than two days after their factory collapsed on them, at least some garment workers were still alive in the corpse-littered debris yesterday in Savar, a suburb of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, pinned beneath tons of mangled metal and concrete. Rescue crews struggled to save them, knowing they probably had just a few hours left to live, as desperate relatives clashed with police in their anger and grief.
Amid the chaos, the cries for help and the smell of decaying bodies at the eight-story building where more than 300 died, what happened to 18-year-old Mussamat Anna passes as luck. Rescue workers cut off the garment worker's mangled right hand to pull her free from the debris on Thursday night.
The death toll topped 300 yesterday, and it remained unclear what the final number would be. Military spokesman Shahin Islam told reporters that 304 bodies had been recovered.
Brigadier General Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing rescue operations, said 2,200 people have been rescued. The manufacturers' group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed on Wednesday.
An army rescue worker, Major Abdul Latif, yesterday said he found one survivor still trapped under concrete slabs, surrounded by several bodies. At another place in the building, four survivors were found pinned under the debris, a fire official said.
Rescue workers said they were proceeding very cautiously inside the crumbling building, but they said the trapped workers were so badly hurt and weakened that they would need to be extricated within a few hours if they are to survive.
Amid the chaos, the cries for help and the smell of decaying bodies at the eight-story building where more than 300 died, what happened to 18-year-old Mussamat Anna passes as luck. Rescue workers cut off the garment worker's mangled right hand to pull her free from the debris on Thursday night.
The death toll topped 300 yesterday, and it remained unclear what the final number would be. Military spokesman Shahin Islam told reporters that 304 bodies had been recovered.
Brigadier General Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing rescue operations, said 2,200 people have been rescued. The manufacturers' group said the factories in the building employed 3,122 workers, but it was not clear how many were inside it when it collapsed on Wednesday.
An army rescue worker, Major Abdul Latif, yesterday said he found one survivor still trapped under concrete slabs, surrounded by several bodies. At another place in the building, four survivors were found pinned under the debris, a fire official said.
Rescue workers said they were proceeding very cautiously inside the crumbling building, but they said the trapped workers were so badly hurt and weakened that they would need to be extricated within a few hours if they are to survive.
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