The mortality rate of building collapse in Bangladesh factory complex passes 1,000 with bodies still excluded from the wreckage, more than two weeks after the disaster.
Most bodies can only be identified from hand phone in their pockets, officials said. (Credit: AFP). The mortality rate in Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster has passed 1,000 after a number of more bodies under the rubble removed from the building that collapsed on the outskirts of capital Dhaka.
Military spokesman, Captain Shahnewaz Zakaria, said the death toll was 1,006 while a search operation in Savar, 30 miles southwest of Dhaka, entered the 17th day.
He said officers with "crane, bulldozer and digger" has issued 130 more bodies from the rubble since Thursday morning.
Most corpses, which had rotted, can only be identified from hand phone in their pocket or identity card factory worn around their necks, he added.
"Most of the victims were killed in the female labor", said Captain Zakaria.
The authorities took DNA samples from all the victims to claim compensation in the future.
More than 3,000 garment workers were in five garment factories in the building, which makes clothes for western retailers such as Benetton, Mango and Primark, when the building collapsed.
At least 2,437 people were rescued, around a thousand suffered severe injuries, including dozens of the members of the body should be cut in order to be removed from under the debris.
Bangladesh has experienced a series of disasters in the textile industry.
On Thursday, disaster struck again when a garment factory fire in Dhaka, killing eight people, including the owner.
Cause of the fire is not yet known, but authorities said the fire occurred at night on the third floor of a 11 floor building where there are garment factories from Tung Hai Group.
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