The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Five more bodies of construction workers, trapped under the debris of the collapsed multi-storied Rangs Bhaban at the city’s Bijoy Sarani, were found yesterday, raising the death toll to ten from the tragic incident.

The rescuers of Fire Service and Civil Defence recovered three bodies from the debris of concretes at the 3rd floor till late evening yesterday and sent them to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue in coffins for postmortems.

The work for recovering two bodies were going on till late at night removing the debris.

Witnessing the bodies, the relatives of the workers burst into tears. They were waiting for receiving the bodies in front of the Rangs Bhaban.

The 22-storied building collapsed from the 14th floor to the 3rd floor at about 10:30pm on December 10 last while the workers were preparing to retire for the night.

Earlier, five decomposed bodies of four workers were recovered by rescuers from the Rangs Bhaban.