On Saturday, even more than to find a woman in a garment factory collapsed, more than two weeks ago in the ruins of the excitement alive, and rescue workers to return to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieve rotting corpses, know there is little opportunity find more survivors.
Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster killed more than 1,000 and climbing. More than 2,500 people were rescued immediately after the disaster of April 24, to Friday, the staff has gone nearly two weeks did not find anyone alive.
Then, after one has become a grim world's worst disaster garment industry, a decaying corpse search, rescue workers found a woman alive, the tired workers provide a much-needed boost.
17 days, a woman, a female dressmaker, lay trapped in a dark basement pocket tens of thousands of tons of wreckage Celsius mid-1930s when the outdoor temperature climbed to the mid-degrees Fahrenheit (90) below. She rationing food and water. She patted a pipe, in order to attract attention. She quickly lose hope of ever make it out alive.
In the ruins of the collapsed eight stores in the top of her garment factory building, crazy rescue operation ended a long time ago.
"Nobody listens to me, for me, it was so bad, I never thought I would see the sun again," tailor, Khaleda the RESHMA told Somoy TV from her hospital bed Friday her amazing rescue.
Salvage workers finally heard the magic moment came when Khaleda hit. They took her safety. She is in good condition surprisingly, a large, bright pink scarf wearing a purple dress.
"I heard her say, 'I'm still alive, please help me," I gave her water, said: "She is very determined, volunteers climbed debris, to help cut the free MIRAJ of Khaleda Hussein .
Rescue Bangladesh national television broadcast. Prime Minister rushed to the hospital, the family of the woman hugging a loved one, they think they will never again seen alive.
April 24, Khaleda work in a factory, when the building began to collapse around her Rana Plaza, second floor. She said she rushed down the stairs to the staircase to the basement, where she became trapped nearly a Muslim prayer room, and let her survive in a wide pocket.
Trapped under the rubble, her long hair, but her with a sharp object to cut her hair, and the release of said to myself, Major General Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, head of the local military units responsible for the disaster site.
Around me some dry food, I eat dry food for 15 days, and the last two days, I have nothing but water, I only have a limited amount of water, save it for drinking around me, I have a few bottles of water, "Khaleda told television reporters, doctors and nurses grinding to her brine and check her condition.
After the building collapsed, the Khaleda's mother, Khaleda Zobeda, spent a sleepless night, crossed from one place to another to come to her daughter and other family members to join the search. When they find out she has rescued, they raised their hands in prayer.
"I could not believe when I saw her in the hospital, in her 60-year-old mother, frail woman cried.
Dhaka Prothom Alo newspaper quoted Major. Fakhrul. Islam, in the hospital, the doctor said, "the grace of Allah, RESHMA done a good job, she is still in the intensive care unit, she was out of danger."
Friday, the last survivors have been found to April 28, and even her story ended in tragedy. Shahina Akter as workers tried to free the fire, she died of smoke inhalation.
Cruise, rather than engaged in painstaking work, trying to eliminate the agency, so that the victims' families can bury their loved ones. They eventually approached the the Khaleda part trapped.
Khaleda said: "I heard the sound of the rescue workers, in the past few years, I kept with sticks and rods hit the wreckage, only to attract their attention,".
She finally got the attention of the crew, when she took a steel pipe, and began to beat it, Abdul Razak said Warrant Officer military engineering department who first found her in the wreckage.
Rescue workers could not believe there may be a survivor. "But within a few minutes, we say for sure that there was someone," Razak said.
Workers ran into the darkness of the ruins and, ultimately, flashlight, release her, he said.
They ordered the cranes and bulldozers stopped immediately, and with a handsaw and welding and drilling equipment, still trapping her by cutting iron bars and debris. They gave her water, oxygen and saline, because they work.
Hundreds of people in the last few days removed from the site organizations engaged in a show of hands together in prayer for her survival.
"God, you are the greatest, you can do anything, please let all of us to rescue the the survivors just found out, said:" A person to lead the callers speakers. "We seek to apologize for our sins, forgive us, forgive people found alive."
After 40 minutes, she is free.
"When we get there, we lifted her together with our hands, and she put her on a stretcher, she felt confused rescue workers shouted:" God is great, "Hussein said her rescue One of the staff.
Soldiers and helmet man Khaleda on a stretcher, waiting for an ambulance took her to a military hospital. Her rescue workers said she was in good condition, although her test. Razzaq said, she can even walk.
"She was good, was not injured, she just trapped a broad space for Moyeen lieutenant colonel said army officials at the scene uses only one name.
The doctors at the hospital told the television station of Bangladesh Khaleda is out of danger, her kidneys and liver function is fine.
Khaleda survive for more than two weeks the temperature hit the mid-30s (mid-90s).
"This is just a miracle, it is so enjoyable!" Razzaq said, warrant officer.
Khaleda rescue workers told her that there is no more survivors in her field. Workers began to tear through the nearby ruins, in any case, hoping to find another person alive.
"Tell me Reshma others with her three, they die, she did not see other people alive," said Suhrawardy. Another part of the building, not far away to Khaleda's body was eventually recovered, he said.
Khaleda's sister Asma said she and her mother maintained a vigil tailor, who is in rural areas of Dinajpur, 270 km (170 miles) north Dhaka. She said that they had lost hope that the face of the endless string of tough days, many institutions and there were no survivors from the rubble were removed.
"We took her back, we have lost all we hope to find her alive," she told TV Somoy. "God is so merciful."
The women rushed to the hospital to see her.
Called Khaleda Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina The rescued woman started crying on the phone in the hospital, Suhrawardy said. She told Hasina: "I'm fine, please pray for me," he said.
The officials said that the Hasina government in the powerful garment industry has been criticized for its lax oversight and take the helicopter to meet her to the hospital, rescue workers congratulated.
"This is an incredible feat," Hasina was quoted as her assistant Mahbubul 哈克沙克尔 said.
The Khaleda live in a rented house in the the Dhaka suburbs with her sister, he worked in different garment factories.
Officials said on Saturday, has recovered 1,081 bodies from the rubble of fallen buildings, placed five garment factories, employing thousands of workers. They said 780 bodies have been handed over to their families.
Suhrawardy said rescue workers to return to work soon, Khaleda. He is no clear time frame for recovery operations.
Lead to disaster alert Bangladesh $ 20 billion in the apparel industry, which provides a large clothing retailers around the world often fatal working conditions.
Brig. Siddiqul Alam Shikder Gen. Mohammed, army officials to monitor the aftermath of the badly decomposed body was recovered and identification difficult.
"We are careful," he said. "If we get any ID card or phone with them, we can still identify them our sincere efforts, at least the family of the hand."
Brig. General Azmal Kabir, the works of the army, a senior official said, more than half of the estimated 7,000 tons of debris have been removed from the site, but he did not know when the work would be finished.
Officials say the owner of the Rana Square illegally added three floors the garment factory installation of heavy and generators, even if the design of the structure can not support this device.
Employers and eight others, in which the garment factory owners have been detained.
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