(http://www.channelstv.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bangladesh.jpg)(http://www.channelstv.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bangladesh.jpg) (http://www.channelstv.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bangladesh.jpg)A rare moment of joy in Bangladesh as a woman is pulled from the rubble 17 days after a building collapsed killing more than 1,000 people. Rescuers speculated that she may have survived by drinking water that had pooled in the site after firemen doused flames that had broken out earlier in the rescue effort. "When I was cutting iron rods suddenly I found a silver colored stick just moving from a hole and I looked through and I saw someone calling 'please save me'. Then instantly I called the army and fire fighters and said please look I heard a sound. Then they saw her and confirmed that there was a woman. They rescued her and sent her to hospital." Her mother in law -- who says the survivors name is Reshma, is relieved "I have not seen her yet but I am very happy that she is alive. At least my grand children got their mother back. All my grand children are now overwhelmed." As the bodies are still being pulled from the rubble the woman is now recovering in the hospital -- a rare glimpse of hope from a disaster that devastated so many lives. Major Moazzem Hossain said Begum had been discovered by chance after army engineers searching for more bodies began cutting through concrete beams, inadvertently allowing a ray of sunlight to pour into the space where she had been stuck. Begum began waving an aluminum curtain rail through the gap to attract attention and cried out "Save me! Save me!". "We told her the whole country is with you, we will never leave this place until we rescue you," Hossain told Reuters. "How can she have survived for 17 days? It must have been a miracle." Mohammad Rubel Rana, a workman who had been cutting iron rods at the site said he had alerted rescue crews after hearing her cries. "I heard a faint voice saying 'Save me, Save me'," Rana told Reuters television. "She was given water, biscuits and oxygen." A doctor at the Combined Military Hospital in Savar where Begum was treated told reporters she was stable but needed rest. Good news has been in short supply in Bangladesh, which is simultaneously reeling from the aftermath of the disaster and its worst bout of violent since independence in 1971 ahead of elections due early next year. A series of deadly incidents at factories has focused global attention on safety standards in Bangladesh's booming garment industry. Eight people were killed in a fire at a factory this week, which an industry association said on Friday may have been started deliberately. About 2,500 people were rescued from Rana Plaza, in the industrial suburb of Savar, 20 miles northwest of Dhaka, including many injured, but there is no official estimate of the numbers still missing. The disaster, believed to have been triggered when generators were started up during a blackout, has put the spotlight on Western retailers who use the impoverished South Asian nation as a source of cheap goods. Nine people have been arrested in connection with the disaster, including the building's owner and bosses of the factories it housed.
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17 days under rubble. Amazing miracle!