The death toll will continue to grow, the Red Cross estimates as “initial information shows that more than 18 million people live in the area affected by the earthquake”.
The last junta’s announcement that rules in Myanmar reports 1,644 dead and more than 2,300 injured while the Mandaley Fire Chief, the country’s second largest city hit more than the earthquake, told Al Jazeera
At the same time, humanitarian businesses in Myanmar is hampered by damaged infrastructure and damaged roads, the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA) announced today.
The 7.7 Richter earthquake that hit the country yesterday destroyed critical infrastructure, including central roads and bridges making humanitarian businesses difficult to access in the affected areas, the statement added.
Without elementary equipment, the minimum rescue workshops work incessantly to detect survivors under debris. “We dig with our hands,” he told the BBC rescue team in Mandaley desperately trying to approach the trapped who gave life signs.
The rescue task is undertaken by the residents themselves
as evidenced by testimonies that have begun to see the light of publicity despite the difficulties of access to sources in Myanmar.
“There are too many ruins and no rescue teams have come for us,” the survivor of the 25 -year -old earthquake from Mandaley told Reuters.
Han Sai, an exiled journalist from Myanmar, spoke to CNN: “I received a phone call from a fellow villager who told me that the monastery of our village had turned into ruins, also telling me that my brother was at the time of the earthquake.”
“It took three hours to retrieve my brother,” he said, adding that there was no official support and people rely on each other for help.
Among the buildings that collapsed were a kindergarten in Mandaley. The corpses of 12 preschool children and a teacher were recovered this morning. Inside the building at the time of the earthquake it is estimated that there were still 50 children and six teachers.
as infrastructure has suffered significant damage. The company that oversees the distribution of power into a large area announced that there will be electricity for only four hours a day, and it is unknown when the problems will be repaired.
Without a phone no one can learn news about his relatives, and there is a great deal of difficulty in coordinating business as well as access to information.
A 30 -year -old recovered live 30 hours after the earthquake
Earlier, a woman was recovered alive from the ruins of a building that collapsed in Mandalei, Myanmar, near the focus of the devastating earthquake, AFP reporters said.
The 30 -year -old Lai Cing was rescued from the ruins of the Sky Villa Housing Bus, 30 hours after the earthquake and was taken to a stretcher to embrace her husband, Yie Aung, before being admitted to the hospital.
