Nine months after the tragic Rana Plaza disaster, skeletal remains of the victims continue to be found at the site of the building, with 18 pieces of bones being unearthed yesterday.
Mazed, the husband of missing Arina Begum who used to work on the fifth floor of the Rana Plaza, found the bones and skulls from the debris yesterday afternoon.
Mazed told the Dhaka Tribune: “My wife worked in the Rana Plaza. After the incident, I did not find her body. I sometimes go to the debris site with my two children who continuously ask me about their mother.
“Yesterday at 2:30pm, I went there as the date was the 24th [nine-month anniversary of the disaster]. I entered the debris, as there were many openings to the site. Suddenly I saw a dress and a shoulder bone. Then I pulled the dress and found the hair of a woman, dental gum, and the bones of hand and chest. I recovered 18 parts of bones and skulls,” he added.
Police were seen to be threatening Mazed for entering the site and finding the bones, but he was allowed to go after journalists had reached the site.
Abdul Mannan, assistant sub-inspector of the Savar model police station, said: “I have seized 17 bones and skulls from there. However, I think those are not skulls of the victims. There are some groups who bring those from outside and then claim that those are remains of Rana Plaza victims.”
However, Officer-in-Charge of Savar model police station Mostafa Kamal snubbed out news of the bone recovery as “rumour,” and said: “We have not recovered any type of human remains today.”
Earlier, at least 310 pieces of human bones and skulls had been recovered from the collapsed Rana Plaza debris from December 13, 2013 to January 4 this year by local people, street children and the survivors of the Rana Plaza disaster.
