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Agonising wait

EMRAN HOSSAIN
"I didn't understand what happened. All I could see was a ceiling coming down as people on the sixth floor were going down," said Monaem, a knitting supervisor of the factory and one of those who has managed to came out after being trapped for 20 minutes inside the wreckage.
"I opened my eyes but couldn't see anything as the room had
already plunged into darkness. Lack of air and water inside the wreckage worsened the situation even more," he said narrating the terrible ordeal he and six of his colleagues had been through.
"It felt like we were trapped in a grave and we kept praying to god for an end to this nightmare," he said adding, "After about five minutes FROM PAGE 1
there came a bit of fresh air. Soon we saw narrow beams of light and a small hole."
They started to crawl towards the light beams by holding each other's legs, like a snake trying to come out of a hole, he described. "But we found the hole was blocked by the debris. The sight surely disheartened us, but we did not give in. We started to remove the debris, fighting for life. After about 15 minutes of struggle we finally managed to came out of the hell," he continued.
The scream of the trapped Nur Alam could be heard but it was too far for him to rescue him, said Monaem.
"Save my life, my hands are stuck in the rubble," Alam pleaded with the rescuers. Alam, a garment worker, became trapped under the wreckage while working on the sixth floor. He was rescued at 3:30pm, around 15 hours after the collapse.
Though he was only three yards away, it took hours for the rescuers to drag him out of the rubble.
Rescuers said Alam told them that two of his colleagues were also trapped somewhere near him alive. But the rescuers could not salvage them as of 4:00pm.
A sobbing Abbas Uddin Khokan, brother-in-law of Alam, told The Daily Star that Alam begged him to fetch three-year-old Nisha so that he could have a last sight of his dear little boy.
"Let me drink and save my life," Zindar Ali screamed to his relatives over a cell phone at about 8:30am.
Badrul, brother-in-law of Zindar, told reporters that he could not do anything except informing the rescuers that he was trapped. Zindar, however, was rescued at around 3:00pm.
Young knitting workers Rashedul and Imran, now missing, went to the factory at 7:30pm Sunday to take their last two months' salary.
"But the office administration forced them to work in the nightshift, saying that otherwise they would not let them draw their salary," Mariam, Rashedul's sister, told The Daily Star.
"I've been waiting to find out about my brother since the incident, but the law enforcers are not letting us near the site,' she said breaking down in tears.