A woman who survived more than 16 days in the rubble of a collapsed building in Bangladesh can just be seen as she is rescued on Friday.
Identified as Reshmi or Reshma, the woman was found trapped in the basement of the building and given water and food as rescuers tried to reach her. Rescuers stopped using heavy machinery on the site during the delicate operation, according to Bangladesh’s Daily Star newspaper.
“She had been rescued and taken to a military hospital,” Bangladesh’s army spokesman Shahinul Islam told Reuters. The woman had been trapped for about 391 hours.
Local television then showed a woman in a purple dress being freed from the rubble.
