Bangladesh miracle survivor speaks

Rescue workers had given up hope of finding
anyone else alive in the rubble of the Rana
Plaza, except Reshma Begum.
The moment of rescue was tense, emergency
crews drilled, crowds cheered, others prayed.
The nightmare had begun 17 days ago for the
young seamstress as she went to work on the
second floor of the factory building on the
outskirts of the capital Dhaka, in Bangladesh.
Little did she know that in days to come she
would be scavenging for biscuits in the
rucksacks of dead colleagues.
From her hospital bed Reshma Begum told
reporters: “I did not have anything to eat, I
only had two bottles of water with me. I got a
stick to show them I am alive here but no one
could hear me.”
It was 408 hours later that rescue worker
Mohammad Rubel Rana did hear the cries of
Reshma. He described the moment he found
her:
“When I was cutting iron rods, suddenly I
found a silver coloured stick just moving from
a hole, and I looked through and I saw
someone calling ‘please save me”.
The official death toll now stands at one
thousand and fifty people. Nine people have
been arrested in connection with the collapse
of the building including the owner.
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