A seamstress rescued more than two weeks after a building collapsed in Bangladesh was recovering fast in hospital, as the death toll in the country's worst industrial disaster rose to 1,120 on Sunday. "The condition of Reshma Begum is better now and she is recovering fast," said Lieutenant Colonel Sharif Ahmed, a physician at the Combined Military Hospital where the 19-year-old survivor was undergoing medical treatment. Reshma was Friday pulled from the rubble of the Rana Plaza building that housed five garment factories, a bank and shops. The eight-storey building collapsed in Savar, 25-kilometres north-west of Dhaka, on April 24, dpa reported. She had been working in a garment factory housed on the second floor of the building when it crumbled. She survived on dry food and water deep beneath the wreckage. Reshma was being given regular food as her condition improved in the last two days, said the physician, adding that a seven-member medical board would further examine her on Monday. "Reshma will be able to answer many of your questions once she is completely recovered," Ahmed told reporters. Some 1,120 bodies have been extricated from the debris so far, and rescue workers from the army, fire department and Red Crescent are continuing to look for more. The authorities have handed over 828 bodies to relatives, said an officer at the disaster management control room. Army Brigadier General Azmal Karim said the rescue operation was nearing completion as the crew had reached the ground floor. Some 2,500 people were injured when the building collapsed.
