Mohammad Raju has been racked with guilt at losing the grip on her mother's hand while trying to escape Saturday night's blaze at Tazreen Fashions in Ashulia. They were walking downstairs from the fifth floor of the eight-storey building. At one stage the two got separated.
A sewing operator, Raju managed to escape the inferno, but his mother Rehana Begum could not.
He had thought his mother would be able to escape. "But that was my biggest mistake,” he told The Daily Star. “I at least want to see my mother's grave. If it is identified, I will go there occasionally to offer prayers and do penance."
From the burnt factory to hospitals in Ashulia, Savar and Dhaka, Raju made a long search for his mother.
He finally went to National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory at Dhaka Medical College yesterday to give his blood sample in the hope that his mother's grave will be found at Jurain where 53 unidentified victims of the fire were buried.
Also, a class-II schoolgirl Rumi gave her blood at the lab to check if her DNA profiles matched that of any unidentified victims. Her mother Nazma Begum has been missing since Saturday.
"She is the only child of Nazma," said Rumi's aunt Beauty Begum. "If her mother's grave can be identified, she can get compensation from the authorities."
The number of people who gave blood at the laboratory stands at three. Bakul Miah, a Kishoreganj farmer whose daughter worked at the factory, went to the lab on Wednesday.
An officer at the laboratory said it would take at least two to three months to get results of DNA tests on samples collected from the 53 bodies.
The Tazreen incident left at least 111 workers dead and more than hundred injured.
Friday 30 november 2012
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