It will keep a minute’s silence tomorrow in memory of the victims of the devastating seismic vibration, which hit the country and killed more than 2000 people, the military in power said today.
The country will stop any activity for a minute at 12.51 and two seconds local time (08.21 hours of Greece), just as the 7.7 -magnitude earthquake hit the area on Friday, it became known in a press release.
Earlier, the junta had announced that she was preaching a week after the murder, who killed more than 2000 people on Friday, while hopes of finding survivors were decreasing time by time.
The period of mourning lasts until Sunday, the military said, announcing that the flags would wave meselves “as a sign of compassion for human losses and damage caused by the extremely violent earthquake”.
Experts are fearing for additional thousands of dead in Myanmar, despite the mobilization of the international community, which has rushed to help this country plagued by the Civil War and lacking resources in front of the disastrous magnitude of the disaster.
Meanwhile, hopes of relatives of missing and rescuers were resurrected, after rescue teams unleashed four people alive, including a pregnant and one girl, from leveled buildings in Mandalei, as reported by the Chinese news agency Xinhua.
4 survivors have been saved by Chinese rescue team in Mandalay, Myanmar. Rescue efforts continue at full speed!
— Yu Jing (@ChinaSpox_India)
Chinese rescuers, wearing red helmets, carried a survivor, who had wrapped in a thermal blanket, next to piles of damnations in a block of flats in Mandalei, according to images promoted by the Chinese state -run CCTV television network.
and a few minutes later a 6.7 -degree earthquake followed. During the weekend, a series of powerful aftershocks was recorded along the Shangulation Rift, around which a large part of the country’s population lives.
The earthquake, unprecedented for decades in Myanmar, has caused scenes of chaos of up to 1,000 kilometers from the focus, such as in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, where at least 19 people have lost their lives, especially when collapsing a 30 -storey -height.
Battle with time, heat and sepsis
In Mandalei, the second largest city in Myanmar, which is close to the focus, rescue teams were currently working at a less intense pace compared to yesterday. The heat, with mercury reaching 40 degrees Celsius at noon, burden rescuers who attempt around the damaged buildings and accelerating the decomposition of corpses trapped under the ruins, complicating their identification.
As Mandalei’s 1,000 General Hospital was evacuated, hundreds of patients take care of outdoor areas. “It’s a very, very incomplete situation for the whole world,” said one member of the medical team. “We’re doing the best.”
The funerals of hundreds of victims are expected to take place today, as the mournful Muslim community is celebrating Eid, the celebration that marks the end of the month of Ramadan.
“Under normal circumstances, we would be very happy as it is Eid,” said Win Tiri Aung, a 26 -year -old faithful from Mandalei. “But our hearts are heavy this year.”
The Myanmar authorities today spoke of 2,056 dead, 3,900 injured and 270 missing.
The French Foreign Ministry announced the deaths of two of its nationals who had visited Myanmar.
Three Chinese nationals were also killed in the earthquake, Xinhua news agency reported.
