Miracle, 1000 +, 112, 8

 "Rescuers had not found a person alive in this rubble for 13 days."

-- bangladesh-factory-collapse-survivor-pulled-from-rubble-after-17-days-trapped-in-basement/

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"Abdur Razzak, a warrant officer with the military’s engineering department who first spotted her in the wreckage, said she could even walk."
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"She told her rescuers there were no more survivors in her area. Workers began tearing through the nearby rubble anyway, hoping to find another person alive."
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"The religious aspects of the rescue — in a Muslim prayer room, on Islam’s day of prayer — was not lost on the ecstatic crowd."
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"Officials said 1,038 bodies had been recovered as of Friday morning from the rubble of the fallen building, which had housed five garment factories employing thousands of workers. The disaster has raised alarm about the often deadly working conditions in Bangladesh’s $20 billion garment industry, which provides clothing for major retailers around the globe."
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"The country’s powerful garment industry was struck by more tragedy late Wednesday night, when a fire in a sweater factory that had closed for the day killed eight people, including a senior police officer, a Bangladeshi politician and a top clothing industry official."
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"Since workers had gone home, the toll was likely far lower than it could have been. A November fire at the Tazreen garment factory killed 112 people."

-- http://world.time.com/2013/05/08/officials-8-dead-in-bangladesh-garment-fire/

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"Von Drehle says that the international outcry over Bangladesh's recent textile tragedies will not actually change the situation, nor will a proposed boycott of American t-shirts that are made in these factories. In the end, he says, what will make change come is if Bangladeshi workers and local organizations mount a concerted effort to put pressure on local politicians. That and that alone can make the lives of Bangladeshi textile workers better." 

-- Bobby Ghosh: Lessons from the Bangladeshi Factory Tragedies

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"Von Drehle is the author of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America"