Myanmar junta fires warning shots at Chinese aid convoy as death toll from quake crosses 2,800

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Bangkok: Myanmar’s Janata said on Wednesday that its troops fired warning bullets at a Chinese Red Cross Aid convoy, which identified the challenge of aid between civil war as a result of a devastating earthquake as relief groups called for better access to survivors.

The country’s army is struggling to operate Myanmar after the Nobel Laureate Aung San Savi’s elected civilian government in 2021, which has reduced the economy and basic services, including health care since the civil war begins.

Junta spokesman Zhao Mann Tun said the Chinese Red Cross did not inform the authorities that it was in a dispute area on Tuesday night, and a security team opened fire in the air after the convoy, including local vehicles, failed to stop.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said the rescue team and the goods were safe, and they called on all parties in Myanmar to ensure the safety of the rescuers.

“For relief efforts, the transport routes must be kept open and free,” Gio Jiacone told a press conference.

Myanmar state media said the firing on Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake increased to 2,886, injuring 4,639.

The international crisis group said that the rigorous stories of the region were mostly under the rule of armed resistance groups fighting with the military government.

“They will be the most difficult challenge to reach relief agencies, government sanctions, a complex setting of local administration and control by armed resistant groups, and a permanent conflict,” he said.

Before the earthquake, the ICG said, as part of the conflict, due to the Jint Blackout of Internet and mobile phone networks, it was difficult to collect information from such areas.

“The military is present everywhere in the city,” a man who traveled to Sagang. “They are there for security, not to rescue. They check every car.”

New York -based Human Rights Watch called on Junta to allow humanitarian aid and baseless access to a relief agencies, he says donors should get relief through independent groups instead of Jinta authorities.

“Myanmar’s Janata Janata cannot be trusted to respond to the destruction of the scale,” said Bruni Lao, director of Human Rights Watch.

“Relevant governments and international agencies need to suppress Junta so that wherever they are, they can allow full and immediate access to survivors.”

The military has dismissed as allegations of false information that it committed massive atrocities because it fought against a multi -faceted uprising after the uprising.

The rebels have accused the army of conducting airstrikes even after the earthquake, and on Tuesday, a major rebel coalition announced a unilateral ceasefire to assist in relief efforts.

Millions affected

The UN said that there are more than 28 million people in the six earthquake -hit regions, and it has a million emergency funding for food, shelter, water, sanitation, mental health support and other services.

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) said, “The situation is inevitable, especially in stories, especially in stories, interrupting communication and road access efforts.”

Australia announced further support for Myanmar in support of humanity .5.5 million (1 4.1 million), supplied “by well -reviewed international and local partners”.

In a statement on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Penny Wang said, “We take active steps to ensure that our help will not legalize the military government in Myanmar.”

Near the earthquake center, a woman in Mandala told Reuters that authorities were preparing a stage for this month’s Thingian Water Festival, though many people were displaced, whose bodies were left under the falling buildings.

The military council has rejected international journalists’ requests to meet the destruction of the earthquake, citing water, electricity and hotel shortages.

In neighboring Thailand, the number of earthquakes was 22 on Wednesday, damaging hundreds of buildings.

Looking for survivors in the rubble of the Flickro -building building in the capital Bangkok, the site entered their fifth day with a change in the role for some rescue dogs, where 15 people died and 72 were missing.

Officials said the two dogs were re -assigned to provide emotional support to the relatives of the missing persons. The children tapped the Golden Retrosors wearing a light -up vest at a temporary shelter, while others talked to them gently.

This made a small feeling of comfort, Chenpen Kevai said, whose mother and younger sister are missing.

He said, “As long as the dog is barking, when it listens to the signal, there is still a possibility that someone can survive.”

The government is investigating the collapse and preliminary tests have shown that some steel samples from the site were non -standard.