{"id":92,"date":"2013-04-25T09:35:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T09:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/?p=92"},"modified":"2015-03-01T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T06:44:16","slug":"so-near-yet-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/2013\/04\/25\/so-near-yet-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"So near yet so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Savar-selected-383x240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-93\" alt=\"Savar-selected-383x240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Savar-selected-383x240-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Savar-selected-383x240-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Savar-selected-383x240.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>While there are many survivors hurt or squeezed between wrecks of the nine-storey Rana Plaza in Savar, rescuers are unable to speed up their operation due to the precarious situations the survivors are in.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, an unnamed girl was rescued from the building at around 11:50am by cutting her hand that was trapped under the wreck. Rescuers later rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors like her are still calling out for help trapped inside the rubble as surviving there is becoming very difficult due to stench of dead bodies, dust and darkness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA pillar has fallen over me. Please someone save me. Cut my hands to free me,\u201d Aftab, a trapped man cried out as The Daily Star correspondent went near the collapsed building at 11:10am.<\/p>\n<p>Aftab is an operator of New Wave Garments now trapped inside the meshed up seventh floor.<\/p>\n<p>His silhouette is visible through the wreckage. But it was very difficult to reach him.<\/p>\n<p>There are three more persons around him who are alive, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Not far from Aftab, the same factory\u2019s Quality Manager Islam remains trapped under a pillar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we cannot rescue Islam without breaking down the pillar,\u201d said rescue worker Babul, a labourer by profession who is rescuing people from 6:00pm Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Babul said there were many survivors in different pockets of different floors of the building. Their voice can be heard, but it is hard to reach them ensuring minimum safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Star correspondent ventured inside the wreckage at around 10:30am by climbing the remains of staircase through the eastern part of the nine-storey collapse building.<\/p>\n<p>Upon climbing up the fifth floor wreckage, one has to climb precariously broken stairs to reach the caved in upper floors, which are now located at a height of not more than three and half floors.<\/p>\n<p>The seventh floor of the building can be reached through a crack in the wall. Rescuers have made a passage there for their operation.<\/p>\n<p>On the way up the stairs one can see remains of bodies peeping out of wreckages.<\/p>\n<p>The army, which is leading the rescue operation, has been overwhelmed by the presence of unreachable survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there are many survivors hurt or squeezed between wrecks of the nine-storey Rana Plaza in Savar, rescuers are unable to speed up their operation due to the precarious situations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askbd.org\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}