A total of 101 bodies were recovered from the debris of the collapsed Rana Plaza on Thursday, taking the death toll from the disastrous building collapse to 921.
Rescuers recovered the 101 bodies from the wreckage from 6am to 12:50pm while two people succumbed their injuries at hospital on Thursday, said officials at the Army control room set up at the site near Savar bus stand area.
Earlier on Wednesday, the rescuers recovered more than 49 bodies from under the rubble.
Of the recovered corpses, some 98 unidentified bodies have been kept on the Savar Adhar Chandra Model High School ground.
Seventy-nine unidentified bodies have been buried at Jurain Graveyard after taking DNA samples, so that family members of the dead can later find them.
Most of the bodies recovered on Wednesday 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 second phase of the rescue operation by using heavy equipment continued for the 10th consecutive day today (Thursday).
Meanwhile, Maj Gen Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardi, the general officer commanding (GOC) of the ninth infantry division, 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 crashing down on April 24.