Several hundred affected workers and the families of victims of the garment factories housed in collapsed Rana Plaza have demanded proper compensation for rehabilitation and urged the government to disclose account of the foreign aid which came in this regard.
At a human chain formed yesterday morning at the collapse site in Savar, they also sought information about the relatives who have been missing since the devastating incident that took place on April 24 last year.
They said the government had failed to prepare a complete list of deceased, injured and missing workers in the last one year.
The dreadful incident caused the deaths of at least 1,134 workers and injured over 2,515, most of whom are women.
Expressing concern about the recovery of skulls and bones at the site in the recent months, they also called for further search operation. The speakers said over 300 workers were still missing.
In the first phase report on examinations last November, the DNA lab identified 157 victims – 116 women and 41 men; while the second phase report in February this year identified 43 more victims – 33 women and 10 men. As many as 541 families provided DNA samples for cross-matching with the 322 unidentified victims, whose bone and teeth were collected as DNA samples.