Survivors were removed from the rubble in Myanmar and signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper that collapsed in Bangkok on Monday (31), while efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a large Southeast Asian earthquake that killed more than 1,700.
Rescue teams released four people, including a pregnant woman and a girl, from collapsed buildings in Mandalay, the city in the center of Myanmar near the epicenter of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake on Friday (28), Chinese news agency Xinhua said.
A civil war in the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power in a blow in 2021, was complicating efforts to reach the injured and homeless by the Greater Myanmar earthquake in a century.
“Access to all victims is a problem … Given the situation of the conflict. There are many security problems to access some areas in the particular front lines,” Arnaud de Baecque, resident representative of the International Red Cross Committee in Myanmar, Reuters, told resident.
A rebel group said the military rulers of Myanmar were still performing air strikes in villages after the earthquake, and the Singapore Foreign Minister asked for an immediate ceasefire to assist in relief efforts.
In the Thai capital, Bangkok, rescue teams have removed another body from the rubble of a skyscraper under construction, raising the death toll to 12, with a total of 19 dead throughout Thailand and 75 still missing at the construction site.
Scanning machines and sniffer dogs were positioned at the scene and Bangkok Deputy Governor Tavida Kamolvej said rescuers were working urgently on how to access an area where signs of life were detected three days after the earthquake.
Realistic chances of survival decrease after 72 hours, she explained, adding, “We have to accelerate. Let’s not stop even after 72 hours.”
In Myanmar, state media said at least 1,700 people were confirmed dead until Sunday (30) and that the military government had declared a period of mourning one week from Monday.
Access to the media has been restricted in the country since the board took power. The chief of the board, General Min Aung Hlaing, warned over the weekend that the number of fatalities could increase.
This content was originally published in signs of life come from rubble after earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand on CNN Brazil.
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