Rana Plaza: One surviving woman found today after 17 days

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রানা প্লাজায় ১৭ দিন পরও প্রাণের সন্ধান
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স্টাফ রিপোর্টার: সাভারের মৃত্যুপুরী রানা প্লাজার ধ্বংসস্তূপে ১৭ দিন পরও জীবিত একজনের সন্ধান পাওয়া গেছে। তিনি হলেন রেশমী নামের এক নারী পোশাক শ্রমিক। উদ্ধারকর্মীরা জানিয়েছেন, বেলা সাড়ে তিনটার দিকে ধসে পড়া রানা প্লাজার সামনের অংশে রেশমী একজনের সন্ধান পাওয়া যায়। তিনি যেখানে আটকে সেখানে একটি মসজিদ রয়েছে। তবে তিনি ভাল আছেন। তাকে উদ্ধারের সব চেষ্টা করা হচ্ছে। বেঁচে থাকার জন্য হালকা খাবার ও পানি দেয়া হয়েছে।

একই সঙ্গে বন্ধ রাখা হয়েছে ভারী যন্ত্রপাতি দিয়ে উদ্ধার অভিযান। দ্রুত হাসপাতালে নেয়ার জন্য এম্বুলেন্সও রেডি রয়েছে সেখানে। এই মুহূর্তে কাটার মেশিন দিয়ে সুড়ঙ্গ তৈরি করে তাকে বের করার চেষ্টা চলছে। ভবন ধসের ১৭ দিন পর বেঁচে থাকার ঘটনাকে অনেকেই অলৌকিক বলে অভিহিত করছেন।

উল্লেখ্য, গত ২৪শে এপ্রিল ভবন ধসের পর জীবিত উদ্ধার করা হয় দুই হাজার ৪৩৭ জনকে। এবং আজ দুপুর পর্যন্ত লাশ উদ্ধার করা হয়েছে ১০৪৫টি।

 

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Survivor found in rubble 17 days after Bangladesh factory collapse: Fire chief - The Times of India

DHAKA: Bangladeshi rescuers on Friday found a woman survivor in the rubble of a garment factory complex which collapsed and killed more than 1,000 people on April 24, the country's fire service chief told AFP.
"She has been located in a gap between a beam and a column. Her name is Reshmi. She may have reserves of water or have drunk some of the water that we've pumped into the building," Ahmed Ali told AFP.

One of the rescuers said that the woman had cried out for help as recovery teams sifted through the wreckage 17 days days after the nine-storey Rana Plaza complex collapsed on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.

"As we were clearing rubble, we called out if anyone was alive," the unnamed rescuer told the private Somoy TV channel.

"Then we heard her saying 'please save me, please save me'. Since then she has been talking to us."

 

[eastwatch]

Translation of the Bengali news above:

One Survivor found in Rana Plaza after 17 days
Friday, May 19, 2013
Staff Reporter

A woman has been found alive in the catastrophic death trap of Rana Plaza even after the ordeal began 17 days before. Her name is Reshmi. She is a garments worker. The resuers informed that she was found in a mosque located at the front part of the now destroyed Rana Plaza. She is inside the mosque and is in good physical condition. Light food and water have been supplied to her so that she can survive.

In order to avoid an accident, heavy machines have stopped operations. An ambulance is also waiting full-time to take her to the Hospital. Cutter machines are now being used to make a tunnel towards the mosque. This incident of survival after 17 days is seen by many as a miracle.

It is to be noted that 2,437 living persons have been rescued so far after the building collapsed on 24 April, and so far 1045 dead bodies have been recovered.

 

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The Daily Star | Your Right To Know

FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013
SAVAR BUILDING COLLAPSE
Woman pulled out alive
Reshma found almost unhurt, rushed to Savar CMH

STAR ONLINE REPORT

Rescuers pull out Reshma from the rubble of Rana Plaza after 17 days of the building complex collapse in Savar on Friday afternoon. Photo: TV grab

Miraculous as it may sound, a woman has been pulled out alive, almost unhurt, from inside the rubble of Rana Plaza Friday afternoon, the 17th day into the country’s worst building collapse.

Named Reshmi, the woman, who was found alive in the basement of the now flattened nine-storey building, was pulled out at 4:25pm.

Rescuers have given her water and biscuit, stopping use of any heavy machines to make sure that the survivor is not hurt anyway.

An ambulance has been kept waiting near the site to whisk her to hospital on her rescue.

Almost 408 hours into the collapse, a rescuer heard Reshma groaning around 3:15pm.

According to rescuers, they were preparing to break a large slab when the miracle happened.

“As we made an announcement before starting to break the slab asking whether there was anyone alive in there, we heard someone groan,” said a rescuer whose name could not be learnt immediately.

As they jubilant rescuers inquired about her condition, she said she was not much hurt, said the rescuers.

“Reshma,” she replied in a feeble voice, as they asked her name.

ALL NOT LUCKY

Another woman Shaheena was found surviving inside the debris on April 28, more than 100 hours after the building collapse.

But rescuers could not pull her out of the rubble alive even after trying their best.

Ezazuddin Kaikobad, 35, who along with five other rescuers, including two army personnel, entered a tunnel inside the rubble of Rana Plaza on April 28 to pull out garment worker Shaheena, who got trapped behind a beam on the third floor.

When Ezaz was cutting a rod with power saw, a fire broke out from the sparks that originated from the rod-cutting, prompting the rescue team to retreat immediately.

He was admitted to the burn unit of CMH in Dhaka with around 55 percent burn injuries.

He died in a Singapore hospital on May 5.

 

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[third eye]

Good God !

This is amazing ! There may be more .

 

[Developereo]

Truly inspiring news.

Good work.

 

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Miraculous as it may sound, a woman was rescued alive, almost unhurt, from inside the rubble of Rana Plaza Friday afternoon, the 17th day into the country’s worst building collapse.Rescuers pull out Reshma from the rubble of Rana Plaza after 17 days of the building complex collapse in Savar on Friday afternoon.

Named Reshma, the woman, who clung to life in the basement of the now flattened nine-storey building, was pulled out at 4:25pm as the death toll from the collapse reached 1,043.

With almost no sign of injuries in her body, the woman was whisked off to Combined Military Hospital in Savar.

“She is in good health,” Maj Moazzem Hossain, a member of the army, told a curious army of journalists minutes after the rescue as the welcome news swept through the country.

Rescuers gave her water and biscuit, stopping use of any heavy machines to make sure that the survivor is not hurt anyway.

Almost 408 hours into the collapse, a rescuer heard Reshma groaning around 3:15pm.

According to rescuers, they were preparing to break a large slab when the miracle happened.

“As we made an announcement before starting to break the slab asking whether there was anyone alive in there, we heard someone groan,” said a rescuer whose name could not be learnt immediately.“Reshma,” she replied in a feeble voice, as they asked her name.

As they jubilant rescuers inquired about her condition, she said she was not much hurt, said the rescuers.
Source : banglanews24.com

 

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She was found in a place relatively intact which was the prayer room ( makeshift Mosque) for that ill-fate building

 

[Spring Onion]

Allah says in Quran he has fixed a time for death and nobody can die a day before that time or can live a day longer than the fixed period

 

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[Banglar Bagh]

It was so difficult to control tears seeing the affection and emotion in the faces of the rescuers after they rescued Reshma. People all over the country are so happy because she survived. Sahana couldn't be saved but Alhamdulillah Reshma is rescued. All praises to Allah(swt).
"But Allah is your protector, and He is the best of helpers." [TMQ, 3:150]

 

[darkhero]

Absolutely a good news. It is sad that so many people were killed by just one building. I was thinking why the process is so slow? If the collapsed building was removed within three days, a lot people would be saved.

 

[eastwatch]

Absolutely a good news. It is sad that so many people were killed by just one building. I was thinking why the process is so slow? If the collapsed building was removed within three days, a lot people would be saved.

No, no. It is just the opposite. A faster and unplanned removal of broken concretes would have caused deaths of those who were surviving under many layers of debris and were later rescued by removing concrete bit by bit.

 

[LaBong]

This is very inspiring indeed. Hope for her speedy recovery and successful life ahead.