Rescuers officially ended their salvage operation Thursday morning with the removal of all debris from the collapsed five-storey building in city''s Begunbari, reports UNB.
When contacted, Deputy Director of Fire Services and Civil Defense Abdur Rashid said they completed their operational task with the recovery of 25 bodies after all the rubbles were removed at about 10:45 am.
"We also rescued six people with injuries since the rescue operation started Tuesday night," he said.
The 25 recovered bodies were of 11 women, four minor boys, three minor girls and seven men.
One Sohel, hailing from Jamalpur, claimed that his brother Jewel has been missing since the building had collapsed.
He said Jewel, who worked at a garments factory, was residing at a small makeshift shanty besides the collapsed building.
The 5-storey building at Sounth Begunbari collapsed on several tin-shed houses at about 10:40pm on Tuesday night.
Several units of Fire Brigade rushed to the spot to start rescue operation immediately after the incident.
About 100 members of Bangladesh Army, including one platoon from 16 Engineer Construction Battalion (ECB) and one platoon from 2 Engineer Battalion, joined the rescue operation from Tuesday midnight.
Meanwhile, The government has formed a five-member committee to investigate the Begunbari incident two days ago.
This committee has been asked to probe how a five-storey building toppled at one of its sides completely off its base.
Public relation officer of the public works ministry Mofakkarul Iqbal asked the committee to submit the findings within a week.
Housing and public works ministry on Thursday formed the committee headed by Zillur Rahman, the ministry''s joint secretary.
Deputy secretary Sheikh Mizanur Rahman was appointed the member secretary.
The other members of the committee include a representative from the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha (RAJUK), one from the public works department and a representative from architecture department.
The committee is set to start investigations from Friday and has been asked to complete it within three days, said Mofakkarul.
There were 25 confirmed deaths as rescue operations were halted on Thursday morning.
The building had fallen on a number of tin-shed shanties and most of the dead had lived there.
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