Rescuers in Mandalay on Wednesday took a man from the rubble five days after the devastating earthquake of Myanmar, as the calls grew so that the Board allowed more help and stops attacks against the rebels.
The shallow earthquake of 7.7-Magnitude on Friday brought buildings in Myanmar, killing more than 2,800 people and doing thousands of homeless people.
Myanmar state television MRTV He said the number of the earthquake last week has increased to 2,886. MRTV In Telegram also said that 4,639 people were injured and 373 were missing, according to Wednesday morning data.
Several main armed groups that fight against the government have suspended hostilities during the recovery of the earthquake, but the Chief of the Board Min Hlaing said that military operations would continue, despite international criticisms of multiple air attacks.
UN agencies, rights groups and foreign governments have urged all parties in the Civil War of Myanmar to stop fighting and concentrate on helping those affected by the earthquake, the greatest to reach the country in decades.
The hopes of finding more survivors are fading, but there was a moment of joy on Wednesday when a man was taken from the ruins of a hotel in the capital Naypyidaw.
The 26-year-old hotel worker was extracted by a Joint Myanmar-Turkish team shortly after midnight, the Fire Service and the Board said.
Fortunate and dusty but conscious, the man was crossed a hole in the rubble and put on a stretcher, showed a video posted on Facebook by the Department of Fire Services of Myanmar.
Call for peace
With irregular communication and infrastructure delaying efforts to collect information and deliver help, the full scale of the disaster has not yet become clear, and the toll is probable.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported serious damage in the city of Sagaing, citing local rescuers who say that one in three houses has collapsed.
The medical care facilities, damaged by the earthquake and with limited capacity, are “overwhelmed by a large number of patients”, while food, water and medicine supplies are running out, who said in an update.
Sagaing has seen some of the heaviest struggles in the Civil War of Myanmar, and AFP Journalists have not been able to reach the area.
Help groups say that the general response of the earthquake has been hindered by the continuous struggle between the Board and the mosaic complex of armed groups opposed to its rule, which began in a 2021 coup d’etat.
Julie Bishop, the UN special envoy in Myanmar, asked all sides to “concentrate their efforts on the protection of civilians, including humanitarian workers and the delivery of assistance to save lives.”
Even before Friday’s earthquake, 3.5 million people were displaced by the fight, many of them at risk of hunger, according to the United Nations.
Late Tuesday, an alliance of three of the most powerful ethnic minorities of Myanmar announced a one -month pause in hostilities to support humanitarian efforts in response to the earthquake.
The announcement of the Tres Brotherhood Alliance followed a separated partial fire called by the Popular Defense Force: civil groups that took arms after the coup to combat the government of the Board.
Board shoots warning shots in Aid convoy
But there have been multiple reports of the Board’s air strikes against the rebel groups from the earthquake.
Myanmar Board said today that his troops shot at the warning shots to a convoy to help the Chinese Red Cross, underlining the challenge of delivering relief in the midst of a civil war.
The Army has struggled to lead Myanmar after his coup against the elected civil government of the laureate Nobel Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, reducing the economy and basic services, including medical care, to those demacted after the civil war broke out.
The Board spokesman, Zaw Min Tun, said that the Chinese Red Cross had not informed the authorities that it was in a conflict zone on Tuesday night, and a security team shot in the air after the convoy, which included local vehicles, did not stop.
A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the help team and supplies were safe, and asked all parties in Myanmar to guarantee the safety of rescuers.
“It is necessary to keep the transport routes for help efforts open and without obstacles,” Guo Jiakun told a press conference.
The rural parts of the Sagaing region of Milestone were under the control of armed resistance groups that fought against the military government, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said.
“They will be among the most challenging for help agencies to reach, given the regime restrictions, a complex configuration of local administrations and the control of armed resistance groups and persistent conflict,” he added in a statement.
Even before the earthquake, said the ICG, the information had been difficult to collect from those areas, due to an internet blackout and mobile phone networks as part of the conflict.
“The soldiers are everywhere in the city,” said a man who traveled to Sagaing Reuters. “They are there for security, not for rescue. They verify each vehicle.”
“We are aware that some ethnic armed groups currently do not participate in combat, but are organizing and training to carry out attacks,” said Aung Hlaing yesterday, mentioning sabotage against the supply of electricity.
“Since such activities constitute attacks, the Tatmadaw (Armed Forces) will continue to carry out the necessary defensive activities,” he said in a statement.
But the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, rejected the characterization of its Board operations.
“General Senior Min Cong Hlaing has described attacks of current joints in the middle of Myanmar’s suffering as’ necessary protection measures,” he wrote in X.
“They are not necessary or protectors. They are outrageous and must be convicted in the stronger terms possible by world leaders.”
The Australian government denounced the reported air attacks, saying that “they exacerbated people’s suffering.”
“We condemn these acts and ask the military regime that immediately cease military operations and allow full humanitarian access to the affected areas,” said Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
Amnesty International said that “inhuman” military attacks were significantly complicating the relief efforts of the earthquake in Myanmar.
“You can’t ask for help with one hand and bombard the other,” said Myanmar’s researcher at the group, Joe Freeman.
Thailand’s toll rises
Hundreds of kilometers away, in the Thai capital of Bangkok, the workers continued to travel the debris of a 30 -story collapsed skyscraper.
The structure had been under construction when the earthquake hit and its clash buried dozens of builders, few of which have come alive.
The number of deaths on the site has increased to 22, with more than 70 still believing trapped in the rubble.
