Woman found alive 17 days after factory collapse in Bangladesh

Woman found alive 17 days after factory collapse in Bangladesh, After industrial disaster in Bangladesh that has already claimed more than 1,000 lives , as the recovery operation wound down, on Friday,   they found a survivor. Crews digging through the rubble heard a woman’s voice pleading for help.

“I’m alive,” she said, according to Capt. Ibrahim Islam, a Bangladeshi military official outside the site of the recovery operation. “Please rescue me.”

They extracted the woman in an hourlong operation, an army official said.

Crowds converged to watch and pray at the grim site as she chatted with rescuers who rushed her to a hospital.

Her name is Reshma. And she’s one of the more than 2,400 people pulled out of the rubble alive.

The discovery comes more than two weeks after a building in a Bangladesh complex, housing factories full of garment workers, caved in, South Asia’s deadliest industrial disaster.