82 bodies recovered Thursday
The 82 bodies were pulled out of the ruins from 6am to 8pm today, said sources at the Army control room set up at Mansur Market in Savar bus stand area.
Of the retrieved bodies, 697 were handed over to the families and 85 others were lying at the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Besides, 34 bodies were handed over to Anjuman Mofidul on Thursday for burial as those could not be identified.
Rescuers tried to identify the victims by their mobile phones or identity cards kept on the pockets as the bodies decomposed beyond recognition.
Rescuers were also seen falling sick inhaling bad odour coming from the decomposed bodies they recovered from the wreckage of the collapsed building. Two sick rescue workers were admitted to Enam Medical College Hospital
Savar UNO Quamrul Islam Mollah on Thursday urged the relatives of the missing garment workers to go to the DMCH to give their DNA samples.
Meanwhile, the officials and workers of a garment factory owned by Sharmin Group donated their one-day salary worth Tk 31 lakh to the BGMEA disaster relief fund for the Savar victims.
Besides, over 200 affected traders of the Rana Plaza staged demonstrations also on Thursday demanding proper compensation for them.
They held a human chain in Bus Stand area to press home their demand.
Police shut a garment factory, HR Textile Mills Limited, at Ulail under Savar Municipality on Thursday as the factory building developed cracks.
A total of 2,437 people were rescued alive from the rubble of the Rana Plaza that came down crashing on April 24. Of them, nine succumbed to their injuries at different hospitals.
