‘I never dreamed I’d see daylight again’

A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued yesterday — a miraculous moment set against a scene of horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000.

Reshma Begum, 18, survived, in remarkably good shape, by eating dried food that was in her area and drinking a limited amount of water which was in bottles around her.

She was found on the second floor of the eight-storey Rana Plaza building, near a Muslim prayer room in a gap between a beam and column in the wreckage.