The poor woman's dead body that remained at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue for five days was taken to her village on Wednesday.

Hailing from Medirpar village under Nakla upazila of Sherpur district, Nuri Begum came to Narayanganj one year ago to manage money by begging for the marriage of her younger daughter Rezia.

With Tk 5,000 that she had saved in a year, she started for her village home on Saturday.

As Nuri was waiting to cross the road to reach Mohakhali bus terminal where she would get a Sherpur-bound bus, the Phoenix building collapsed and she was buried under its debris.

"I was thundered to see the large building fall down and looked around, but did not find my aunt," said Nuri's nephew Shah Jamal who was accompanying her.

Searching here and there for sometime, he went back to Sherpur, he added.

Since then, the family had been looking for Nuri at Mohakhali and on Tuesday night they found a picture of Nuri at the Detective Branch office and identified her decomposed body at the DMCH morgue.

Anjuman Mufidul Islam, a charitable organisation, was about to take the body for burial when the family members came to take it.

"Now we are struggling to take the body to the village as it will take around Tk 8,000 including the microbus fare and medicines to preserve and process the body. But we have to take the decomposed body as daughters want to see their mother for the last time and bury her in the village," said late Nuri's son-in-law Nur Ali.

"We borrowed Tk 3,000 and it is already finished as we are staying in the city for the last three days and now we don't know what to do," he said.

"For the last six months we were looking for a suitable boy to marry off Rezia. But we have no landed property or cash money and that's why my mother-in-law had to beg. We were just waiting for her returning home and arranging the marriage," he added.

Finding Nuri in a critical condition, rescuers sent her to the DMCH shortly. But the poor fellow succumbed to her injuries after half an hour.