At 2,719, the dead of the murder has reached 2,719, as announced by the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office today. In the meantime accommodation, drinking water and medicines are in lack. The number of injured has risen to 4,521 and those missing at 441.
“The timeframe for critical research and rescue narrows … roof, drinking water and medicines are not sufficient. Residents in the affected areas spent the night out in the countryside because there is no electricity or drinking water, “Ocha official and humanitarian affairs coordinator for Myanmar Markitzi.
A minute’s silence
Myanmar’s National Television Network interrupted its programs to transmit footage of flags that were waving in different parts of the country, while hearing mournful music. The period of national mourning in the country will last until April 6, Junta announced Monday.
In the face of what was left of an apartment complex in Mandalei, in one of the parts of the city that were greatly affected by the powerful earthquake, rescuers stood in a row with their hands behind the back honoring the memory of the dead.
Experts are concerned that the dead are thousands of more, as Shangling’s rift, from which the earthquake came, crosses areas among the country’s most populous, including the capital Naipidao, and Mandalei.
In decomposition the corpses in the ruins
The Civil War, which has kneeling the key infrastructure and fragmenting the country, in which dozens of armed organizations, national minorities and political opponents of the junta, is further complicating the collection of information.
About 500 faithful Muslims found death in mosques in the midst of Friday’s prayer, also wrote the Global New Light of Myanmar, which is in the junta. Fifty children and two teachers were killed when their kindergarten in the city collapsed, the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA) announced.
In pagoda affected by a partially collapse of a building where there were dozens of exams, an Indian rescuer talked about the very intense stench emerging from the bodies in disintegration in the ruins, and today he was still hot at 40 degrees.
A firefighting official estimated that more than four days after the earthquake there could no longer be survivors.
