Garment factory death toll continues to climb

SAVAR (AP):Police say the death toll from the collapse of a garment factory building in Bangladesh has soared past 1,100 as recovery operations continue.

Doctors say a seamstress who was rescued 17 days after the eight-storey building collapsed is recovering in a hospital, but is exhausted, panicked and dehydrated.

OPERATION BOOST

Her discovery in the rubble last Friday brought a boost to the rescue workers but by yesterday they had resumed their grim task of removing bodies and the death toll reached 1,115 in the world's worst garment industry disaster.

"We will not leave the operation until the last dead body and living person is found," said Major General Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, the head of the local military unit in charge of rescue operations.