"She has been located in a gap between a beam and a column. Her name is Reshmi. She may have reserves of water or have drunk some of the water that we've pumped into the building," Ahmed Ali told AFP.
One of the rescuers said that the woman had cried out for help as recovery teams sifted through the wreckage more than 16 days after the nine-storey Rana Plaza complex collapsed on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka.
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"As we were clearing rubble, we called out if anyone was alive," the unnamed rescuer told the private Somoy TV channel.
"Then we heard her saying 'please save me, please save me'. Since then she has been talking to us."
