Rescuers in Bangladesh have found a survivor from the Dhaka factory collapse 17 days on. Soldiers have managed to free the woman.

Workers were ordered to stop clearing the site when they noticed someone waving from the debris.

The number of people killed in the disaster has reached 1,000.

The woman called Reshma was discovered on the second floor of the 8-storey Rana Plaza building. Crews have been focusing on recovering bodies for much of the past 2 weeks.

"I heard voices of the rescue workers for the past several days. I kept hitting the wreckage with sticks and rods just to attract their attention," she told a TV company from her hospital bed.

"No one heard me. It was so bad for me. I never dreamed I'd see the daylight again. There was some dried food around me. I ate the dried food for 15 days. The last two days I had nothing but water. I used to drink only a limited quantity of water to save it. I had some bottles of water around me" she added.

She was discovered in the wreckage of a Muslim prayer room in the building and army officials immediately ordered the cranes and bulldozers to stop work.