At least 1,700 killed in Myanmar as aftershocks rattle Mandalay

Mandali: Residents hollowed out buildings searching for survivors on Sunday as Aftershocks shaken the devastating city Mandala, two days after the death of at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and at least 18 people in neighboring Thailand.

Early on Friday morning, an early 7.7 magnitude earthquake near Mandala, central Myanmar, started, followed by 6.7 Shan after 6.7 Shan.

The earthquake demolished the buildings, dropped bridges, bridges and buckled roads, causing widespread devastation in the city of more than 1.7 million people.

Tea shop owner One Lone picked up his way through the remains of a restaurant falling on a main road in his neighborhood in early Sunday, in which bricks were tossed one by one.

“Seven people died here,” he told AFP, when the earthquake started, he told AFP.

“I am looking for more bodies, but I know no one can survive.”

About an hour later, a small aftershock attacked, and sent people out of the hotel for safety, felt late Saturday evening after the same earthquake.

And about 2:00 pm (0730 GMT), another aftershock-American geological survey, 5.1, sent people to the street in alarm, which temporarily stopped rescue works.

One night before, the researchers brought a woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building, when her claps were ringing when she was taken to an ambulance by a stretcher.

Myanmar’s ruler Jinta said in a statement on Sunday afternoon that about 1,700 people have been confirmed so far, about 3, 3,400 were injured and close to 300 are missing.

But the actual measure of destruction in the isolated military rule state is unclear, and the number is expected to increase significantly.

At a damaged Buddhist exam hall in Mandala, Myanmar and Chinese respondents worked to find buried victims on Sunday.

So far, 21 people have been rescued while 13 bodies have been recovered, but at least two people were still considered alive in the rubble, rescue workers said.

The missing 46 -year -old monk’s sister in the falling hall appeared in deep troubles, and told AFP that he had heard no news about his status.

“I want to hear the voice of his preaching,” he said. “The whole village looked at him.”

Multiple challenges

Junta’s Chief Man Ang Hilang issued an extraordinary appeal for international aid on Friday, indicating the severity of the catastrophe.

The previous military governments have removed from foreign aid even after great natural disasters.

Myanmar has been destroyed in 2021 by a military coup for a four -year civil war.

Following the earthquake, reports about the spat fight were reported, a rebel group told AFP on Sunday that seven of its fighters had been killed in airstrikes only after a shock.

The shadow “National Alliance Government” said in a statement that anti -Junta fighters in the country have announced a two -week partial ceasefire in the earthquake -hit areas since Sunday.

The United Nations said overnight that the severe lack of medical equipment was a hindrance to the earthquake in Myanmar, while relief agencies have warned that the country is not ready to deal with the destruction of the severity.

On Sunday, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Society launched an emergency appeal of more than 100 million to help the victims.

Before the earthquake hit, about three and a half million people were in danger of hunger.

Rescue teams and aid are arriving from donor countries around the world, on Sunday, Thailand sent 55 military personnel and six rescue dogs, along with cranes and excavators.

Elimination of Bangkok Building

Across the Thailand border, rescuers in Bangkok on Sunday that they were trapped in the trapped people when the 30 -storey skyscraper building ended after Friday’s earthquake.

City officials said on Sunday afternoon that at least 18 people were killed in the Thai capital, 33 were injured and 78 were missing.

Most of the deaths were killed in the elimination of the tower, while most of the missing debris are trapped under a pile of debris where once the skyscrapers were parked.

The trauma of the moment felt the 22 -year -old survivor, Burmese activist Q. Lin HTET as if “consciousness was lost”.

“I never expected it to be with me because we just watch on TV,” he told AFP on Sunday.

Sniffer dogs and thermal imaging drones have also been deployed to take life in the collapsed building, which is near the popular tourist Chattak Week and Market.

Engineers will evaluate and repair 165 destroyed buildings around the city on Sunday, officials said.