<i>Long wait for missing loved ones </i>

Elderly Tahura Khatun could barely stand upright. Onlookers helped her to stand amid a huge crowd on the bank of the Turag.
Fixed on the river, Tahura's fading eyesight was hunting something.
“Hazera [her 30-year-old daughter] doesn't come to me anymore. I've been lurching for the three days on the bank. My eyesight has become blurred now,” she said in a feeble voice.
Hazera Khatun, her daughter, remains missing since the bus plunged into the Turag river on Sunday.
Tahura reached the riverbank around 4:00pm on Sunday and went home after nightfall and arrived the next day when it was still dark.
Leaving after sunset on Monday, she turned up again at the scene before dawn yesterday.
This correspondent found her trying to go down to an army camp set up there hearing an unidentified body of a woman was found around 2:00pm.
There she collapsed with agonising pain. The very body that lay in front of her was not that of her daughter's. She howls again as she pats on her forehead.
Tohura does not know when she will see her daughter again -- dead or alive.
Hazera became the lone breadwinner in the family after her father died some 15 years ago, a sobbing Tohura told this correspondent.
Tohura is not the only one to be waiting for missing dear ones by Turag that swallowed a whole Savar-bound bus with some 50 passengers on board.
The Daily Star found members of at least 10 such families waiting for their loved ones.
Locals said many family members of missing persons did not wait for the rescuers to find their dear ones -- they rather continued searching for themselves along the riverbank.
Of the total 11 bodies recovered so far, eight bodies were recovered yesterday from downstream around seven kilometres off the accident spot.
Another woman was waiting with her two minor kids on the riverbank for her relative Mamun-or-Rashid, 35, of Savar. Mamun has gone missing since the tragic accident.
Upazila Nirbahi Officer Rabbi Miah told The Daily Star that high tide might have drove away some bodies from the sunken bus. The search will go on, he said.