Rana Plaza death toll climbs to 915

 Thirty eight more bodies were recovered from the debris of Rana Plaza on Thursday, raising the death toll in the disastrous building collapse to 915.

Rescuers pulled out the 38 bodies from the ruins from 6:00am to 12:30pm today, said sources at the Army control room set up at Mansur Market in Savar bus stand area.

Of the recovered corpses, 655 were handed over to the families while 100 have been kept on Savar Adhar Chandra Model High School ground.

Seventy-nine unidentified bodies so far, after taking DNA samples, have been buried at Jurain Graveyard so that family members of the dead can later find them.

Most of the bodies recovered on Thursday were decomposed and beyond recognition.

A total of 2,437 people have been rescued alive so far from the rubble of the building.  Of them, nine succumbed to their injuries at different hospitals.

The 2nd phase of the rescue operation by using heavy equipment continued for the 10th consecutive day today (Thursday).

Meanwhile, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 9th Infantry Division Major General Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardi, who is coordinating the rescue operation, at a press briefing said the 2nd phase rescue operation might be completed within two days.

The eight-storey building came down crashing on April 24.

Source: UNB Connect