DHAKA: An 18-year-old Bangladeshi seamstress who became a national heroine when she was pulled from a collapsed factory after 17 days in the rubble has fully recovered and will leave hospital on Thursday, the army said.
The teenager, known only as Reshma, drank rainwater and foraged food from coworkers' lunch boxes to survive in the ruins of Rana Paza, a nine-storey garment factory complex outside Dhaka which collapsed on April 24 killing 1,129 people.
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