BANGLADESH: Relatives mourn loved-ones killed in a deadly building collapse in Bangladesh with many waiting for news of the hundreds of people still missing

Record ID: 216367

  • Title: BANGLADESH: Relatives mourn loved-ones killed in a deadly building collapse in Bangladesh with many waiting for news of the hundreds of people still missing
  • Date: 27th April 2013
  • Summary: SAVAR, BANGLADESH (APRIL 27,2013) ( REUTERS) ENTRANCE OF A SCHOOL NEAR COLLAPSED FACTORY WHERE VICTIMS BODIES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT RELATIVES LOOKING FOR MISSING FAMILY MEMBERS POSTING PHOTOS ON WALLS PICTURES POSTED ON WALL COFFINS LINED UP IN SCHOOL FIELD VARIOUS OF RELATIVES AND VOLUNTEERS PUTTING BODY INTO A COFFIN GIRL CRYING/LYING OVER COFFIN WOMEN STANDING GIRL LYING
  • Embargoed: 12th May 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Bangladesh
  • Country: Bangladesh
  • Topics: Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVACRP3R9XDMOF1AF1W8325MANLI
  • Story Text: The entrance of a school was covered with photographs of those still missing after a building collapsed, where low-cost garments were made for Western brands, killing at least 340 people in Savar, Bangladesh.
    Volunteer workers lined coffins, with bodies recovered from the rubble, in a field in a school on Saturday (April 27), just a few kilometers away from the collapsed building. Many mourned the loss of their loved-ones.
    One volunteer said some of the bodies were decomposed and unclaimed.

    "The bodies we are now recovering don't have identities (No one claimed them) most of the bodies are decomposed so we have given some of those to 'Anjuman' (organisation that takes care of unnoticed bodies) for burial as bad smells are coming out from those bodies," volunteer worker, Kamrul said.
    Others held up photographs of missing relatives as they anxiously waited for news.

    "Where have they gone, there were hundreds of workers. Now we are not getting them neither alive nor dead. Please let us get them either dead or alive," said Parul Begum, woman looking or her sister.
    Rescue efforts continued 72 hours after the deadly collapse.
    Two factory bosses were arrested in Bangladesh, while the owner of the eight-storey building that fell like a pack of cards around more than 3,000 workers was still on the run.
    Remarkably, people were still being pulled alive from the precarious mound of rubble - 20 in all since dawn on Saturday.
    Frantic efforts were under way to extract 15 people trapped under the mound of broken concrete who were being supplied with dried food, bottled water and oxygen.
    About 2,500 people have been rescued, at least half of them injured, from the remains of the building in the commercial suburb of Savar, about 30 km (20 miles) from Dhaka.
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