Bangladesh woman survives 17 days under the rubble

SAVAR: Rescuers pulled a woman on Friday
from the rubble of a Bangladesh garment
factory 17 days after it collapsed,
astonishing workmen who had been
searching for bodies of victims of a disaster
that has killed more than 1,000 people.
Hundreds of onlookers burst into cheers as
army engineers pulled the woman from the
basement of the building after a workman
helping to clear the wreckage reported
hearing her faint cries of “Save me, save
me” from beneath the ruins.
Pale, drawn and seemingly unable to walk,
the woman, identified by Bangladeshi media
only as Reshma, was hoisted out of the
rubble on a stretcher, then loaded into an
ambulance in scenes broadcast live on
television.
Mohammad Rubel Rana, a workman who
had been cutting iron rods, said he had
alerted rescue crews after hearing a feeble
voice.
“I heard a faint voice saying ‘Save me, Save
me,’” Rana told Reuters television. “She was
given water, biscuits and oxygen.”
“She has been rescued and taken to a
military hospital,” said Bangladesh’s army
spokesman Shahinul Islam.