China’s search and rescue team saved four survivors-three adult women and one girl-after 13 hours of hard work in the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, seriously hit around 7:15 am, local time, Monday (31).
After the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, several Chinese rescue teams arrived at areas hit by the disaster, working with local rescuers 24 hours a day to seek survivors.
Arriving in Mandalay on Sunday night (30), the Chinese team employed rescue dogs to locate a survivor arrested at the Great Wall Hotel earthquake and tried to look for the survivor in damaged buildings.
Given the challenge of a lower floor in the building where the survivor was stuck, the rescue team explored several strategies before deciding to invade underneath, cleaning the rubble to create an exit and carry it out with a stretcher.
At 00h40, local time, this Monday, the survivor, an adult woman attached for almost 60 hours, was rescued after more than five hours of tireless work.
Without stopping to rest, rescuers immediately moved to another nearby place in the Sky Villa apartments complex, where a girl informed the team that her 29 -year -old sister was trapped in the rubble.
Arrested for 65 hours
Following the guidance, rescuers located her conscious and able to communicate.
While the team worked to provide food and water to the survivor, who was arrested 65 hours, and elaborate strategies for the rescue, secondary tremors continued to shake the area.
“The building trembled visibly and then we left,” said one of the professionals.
According to the young woman, she was trapped under the rubble with her older sister in the earthquake. Being smaller, she managed to find a narrow passage to crawl out.
At 7:15 am, local time, this Monday, the older sister was released from the rubble after the team further opened the rescue passage.
The Chinese medical team immediately gave her intravenous fluids and enveloped her in a thermal blanket before transferring her to a stretcher.
“It took three hours to get her, instead of two, as we expected. We continued to work at night until she took her at dawn. She only has a cut on one leg and her vital signs are very good and stable. I hope our team will continue to find and save lives,” said the team’s deputy leader.
Two other survivors were rescued by China’s search and rescue team in Mandalay at 5:37 am and 6:20 am, local time, on Monday, respectively.
All people were sent to the hospital for treatment.
A total of 91 employees of five emergency response civil forces organized by China’s Ministry of Emergency Management have arrived in Myanmar and are participating in rescue operations.
In addition, a rescue team from Yunnan province, China, saved an elderly man who was arrested for almost 40 hours under the rubble of a hospital in Naipitau on Sunday (30).
Also on Sunday, members of the Blue Sky rescue team from Hunan province successfully rescued a survivor at Mandalay Buddhist Hall.
The number of dead by the magnitude 7.7 earthquake on Friday (28) in Myanmar increased to 2,056, with approximately 3,900 injured and almost 270 missing, according to the country’s state-administered board information team on Monday (31).
This content was originally published in Chinese teams rescue four survivors after Myanmar earthquake on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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