The shocks of settlement frighten Myanmar survivors while Bangkok’s death toll increases collapse | Myanmar

The residents climbed desperately through collapsed buildings on Sundays in search of survivors while the snatches of settlement shake the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a huge earthquake killed more than 1,600 people In Myanmar and at least 17 in nearby Thailand.

The initial earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck near the center Myanmar City of Mandalay on Friday afternoon, followed a few minutes later by a shock of settlement of magnitude 6.7.

The tremors collapsed buildings, bridges felling and roads with buckle, with Destruction of mass seen in the city of over 1.7 million people.

While Dawn broke on Sunday, the owner of the tea shop won Lwin made his way through the remains of a restaurant collapsed on a main road in his neighborhood, throwing the bricks one by one aside.

“About seven people died here” when the earthquake hit on Friday, he said to AFP. “I’m looking for more bodies but I know they can’t have survived.

“We don’t know how many bodies could be there, but we’re looking for.”

About an hour later, a small shock of settlement hit, sending the people who hurry to go out to the hotel for safety, after a similar tremore he felt late on Saturday night.

The loads of firefighters trucks met in one of the main stations of the Mandalay firefighters to be sent to the city sites.

The night before, the rescuers had brought out a woman out of the wreck of a collapsed condominium, with applause playing while it was brought by the stretcher on an ambulance.

The dominant junta of Myanmar declared in a Saturday declaration that at least 1,644 people were killed and more than 3,400 injured in the country, with at least 139 others missing.

But with unreliable communications, the real scale of the disaster remains unclear in the isolated e-military state and it is expected that the toll will increase significantly.

The head of the mince min aung Hlaing has issued an exceptionally rare appeal for international aid on Friday, indicating the severity of calamity.

Previous military governments have avoided foreign assistance, even after the main natural catastrophes.

Myanmar has already been devastated by four years of civil war triggered by a military coup in 2021.

The anti-tuning fighters in the country declared a two-week partial fire in the regions affected by an earthquake starting from Sunday, said the government of the Shadow national unity in a note. According to reports, the military continued the air attacks after the earthquake, including a few hours later.

The government in exile said that “would collaborate with the United Nations and NGOs to guarantee the safety, transport and institution of temporary rescue and medical fields” in areas that controls, according to the declaration, which has been issued on social media.

Help agencies have warned that Myanmar is not prepared to manage a disaster of this reach.

The United Nations Humanitarian Agency, OCHA, said that a serious lack of medical supplies and damage to infrastructure were hindering the efforts to respond to the earthquake.

The agency said that hospitals and health facilities have undergone ample damage or have been destroyed.

“Telecommunications and interruptions of the Internet continue to hinder humanitarian communications and operations. Damn roads and debris are hindering humanitarian access and complicating the evaluations of needs,” he added.

The agency said that a convoy of 17 load trucks from nearby China who transported shelters and medical supplies should arrive on Sunday.

About 3.5 million people were displaced by the stormy war, many at risk of hunger, even before the earthquake hit.

Through the border in ThailandThe rescuers in Bangkok worked on Sunday to snatch the trapped survivors when a 30 -storey skyscraper under construction collapsed after the Friday earthquake.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Authority said that 32 people were injured and 83 still not accounted for most from the 30-storey tower block site under construction, it collapsed when the 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck on Friday.

More dozens were still trapped under the immense pile of debris in which the skyscraper was once found.

The workers of the site used large mechanical diggers in an attempt to find victims still trapped on Sunday morning.

Sniffer Dogs and Thermal Imaging Droni have also been lined up to search for signs of life in the collapsed building, close to the Popular Chatuchak weekend market among tourists.

The authorities declared that on Sunday they would deploy engineers to evaluate and repair 165 buildings damaged in the city.

Agence France-Presse has contributed to this report