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May 10th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
“I just rushed to the other rescuers, the seniors, and informed them so she
could be rescued. I heard her voice in the distance,” he said.
The woman was thought to have been trapped under beams in the debris of the
ground floor where she is understood to have had access to water.
Rescuers passed water and snacks to her and gave her oxygen while they
carried out the operation to evacuate her.
Relatives of missing workers from the collapsed factory in Savar, near
Dhaka, hold pictures of their family members (AP)
News of Reshma’s survival emerged as the death toll climbed above 1000.
Rescuers said they had found many areas under stairs where dead bodies were
‘stacked up’ and that they expected to find more bodies yet.
Scores of relatives still awaiting news of their loved ones again gathered at
the site on Friday, desperate to at least accord them a proper burial in
their home village rather than have them buried in an anonymous communal
grave.
Most of the victims were female garment workers and they included many
teenagers, despite it being illegal for factories to hire anyone under 18.
Among those unaccounted for was 15-year-old Brishti Akter, whose mother Rozina
remained hopeful that the teenager’s body would be recovered after spending
much of the last fortnight at the disaster scene.
“She had a key tied to her waist and she was wearing olive coloured
shalwar kameez and a henna-coloured tunic,” Rozina Akter told AFP at
Savar on Friday, while clutching a photo of Brishti.
“I’m not leaving here without her. She was my life.”
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