Thousands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse last month, the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment industry. The Islamic prayer service was held a day after the army ended the nearly three week, painstaking search for bodies among the rubble and turned control of the site over to the civilian government for cleanup. Recovery workers got a shocking boost Friday when they pulled a 19-year-old seamstress alive from the wreckage. But most of their work entailed removing corpses that were so badly decomposed from the heat they could only be identified if their cell phones or work IDs were found with them. The last body was found Sunday night. The mourners raised their cupped hands in prayer Tuesday and asked for the salvation of those who lost their lives when the Rana Plaza building came crashing down 24 April. They also appealed for divine blessings for the injured still in the hospital.
