Relatives of the people still “missing” after the Rana Plaza collapse in Savar brought out a procession near the site Tuesday noon demanding their loved ones be immediately returned.
Some 60 people, including women and children, took to the streets around the site of collapse at noon with photographs of the missing people in their hands.
They started to gather in the area since Tuesday morning, a day after the 19-day combined rescue operation was called off.
The demonstrators said they wanted at least the bodies of their relatives back.
Sagori, a garment worker who worked on the sixth floor of Rana Plaza, has been missing since April 24 – the day the building came crashing down.
“Why are you [rescue workers] leaving? Where is my daughter? Please return her to me,” Anwar, Sagori’s father, screamed out.
Shah Alam came with his three-year-old daughter from Nilphamari looking for his wife Smriti who worked in one of the factories housed in Rana Plaza.
Smriti too has been missing since the day of the collapse.
A total of 1,127 people have so far been found dead in the deadly collapse – 1,115 have been pulled out dead from the rubble and 12 died in the hospitals after being rescued alive.
Official counts put the number of people still missing or not identified at 176, out of which 98 people are missing. Some bodies are still in the morgue while some were buried identified.
Authorities said they would try to identify bodies through DNA tests.