The death toll from the disastrous Rana Plaza collapse has climbed to 1080 with the recovery of three more bodies on Saturday, reports UNB.
The three bodies were pulled out of the ruins from 6am to 10am today (Saturday), said sources at the Army control room set up at Mansur Market in Savar bus stand area.
Of the recovered corpses, 780 have been handed over to the families while 68 have been kept on Savar Adhar Chandra Model High School premises.
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.
The bodies recovered on Saturday were mostly decomposed beyond recognition.
Reshma, a young garment worker, was pulled out miraculously alive on Friday, after 391 hours into the disastrous building collapse.
Reshma who hails from Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur district, was a worker of New Wave Bottoms Limited housed in Rana Plaza.
Rescuers pulled her out alive from the rubble around 4:26pm that day.
Later, she was taken to the Combined Military Hospital, Savar. A total of 2,438 people have been rescued alive so far from the wreckage of the commercial complex.
Of them, nine succumbed to their injuries at different hospitals.
The 2nd phase of the rescue operation by using heavy equipment was continuing for the 12th consecutive day today (Saturday).
Rescue works were being done more cautiously than other days so that at least the bodies in the wreckage can be retrieved undistorted or with the hope that anybody like Reshma might be found alive.
The eight-storey building came down crashing on April 24.
