Rescuers pull out Reshma from the rubble of Rana Plaza after 17 days of the building complex collapse in Savar on Friday afternoon.
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.
Named Reshma, the woman, who clung to life in the basement of the now flattened nine-storey building, was pulled out at 4:25pm.
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.
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.