The International Red Cross Committee has warned this Saturday that the situation in Burma is critical at 24 hours of the earthquake that has already left more than a thousand dead throughout the country, an estimate that will increase as the hours go by.
“After 24 hours, parts of Sagaing, Mandalay and Naipidó continue to be the most affected areas,” said the head of the CICR delegation in Burma, Arnaud de Baecque, in a statement published in his account of social network X.
The humanitarian chief says that “people are still out, in the street”, for fear of aftershocks like the one that followed shortly after the initial earthquake.
In addition, communication and energy supply networks are still falling in several areas of the country, waiting for the Military Board that governs Burma provides a new damage balance this Saturday.
Meanwhile, the ICRC will continue its collaboration with the Burmese Red Cross “to help the affected communities as much as possible,” he rives the note.
