Rescuers were still taking out of the debris when one of several replicas attacked on Sunday, sending people to Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar and the epicenter of the earthquake of magnitude of 7.7 on Friday, shouting to the streets.
Already suffering the brutal cost of four years of civil war, one of the poorest countries in the world now faced the humanitarian crisis and the overwhelming cost of a powerful earthquake that has killed at least 1,600 people and counting, and the help fought to reach those in need on opening roads and crunch infrastructure.
In addition to the injury, the Myanmar ruling military board continued to drop bombs, while the civil war crossed with the natural disaster, deepening the crisis.
Friday’s earthquake has paralyzed the essential services of the nation and caused the critical sections of its roads to be impassable. The hospitals are overwhelmed and fall short in medicine and blood.
The roads and piles of severely damaged debris, including those that are directed to the north to Mandalay from Naypyidaw, the capital and Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar, are stopping the entry of help in the most affected areas, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Aid Office, together with the “telecommunications communications and disruptions on the Internet.”
Immediate needs include clothing, blankets, kitchen games, emergency shelters, water, sanitation and hygiene supplies, and food, said the UN. “The hospital and health centers have suffered extensive damage or destruction.”
As it helps it, residents and rescuers are digging through the debris in search of survivors.
The video verified by Reuters showed Chinese rescuers who worked all night in Naypyidaw, using their hands and shovels, they dig through the remains of a collapsed building before pulling an older person, barely conscious, of the debris, hours after the first earthquake.
In the Sky Villa Condominium, which collapsed in Mandalay, catching dozens of rescue people took a woman, crying, from the rubble. According to the BBC Burmano Service, 29 people have been rescued from the complex and nine recovered.
“Thousands of people spend the nights in the streets or in open spaces due to the damage and destruction of the home or fear more earthquakes,” said the UN in a statement on Saturday.
Some countries have presented themselves to help Myanmar respond to the emergency. Russia sent two aircraft with 120 rescuers and supplies to the Nation, according to the State News Agency Tass, while the Chinese embassy said on Facebook that a team of 37 people had sent to Yangon with medicine and equipment to detect survivors.
India, Singapore and Thailand teams are also working on the field, according to Reuters.
In neighboring Thailand, where several people have died and dozens remain missing, drones buzz over the mountain of dust and twisted reinforcement bars that was once a 30 -story building.
The governor of Bangkok, Chadchart Sittipunt, said Sunday morning that the signs of life could still be detected in the remains.
However, rain threatens to stop rescue efforts. Even more than 48 hours since the building collapsed, relatives of the interior trapped are still on the site, observing and waiting for more than those missing to be soon.
But Myanmar has endured the heaviest toll of the disaster, stacked on the crises that preceded it long before the earthquake hit it.
According to the International Rescue Committee, more than 19 million people need urgency of humanitarian aid.
The World Food Program says that food insecurity in Myanmar affects 15.2 million people. Last year, the UN Security Council expressed concern about the “denial of access to medicine and medical care” after attacks on medical care facilities and blockages in medicines.
The military regime seized power in a coup d’etat four years ago, overthrowing the democratically elected Nobel Prize Aung San Suu Kyi, the former leader of the country. Since then, the country has been grabbed by the Civil War, while the Board struggles to crush armed rebel groups in the country, including the National Unity Government (NUG), the Myanmar Government in exile.
On Saturday, the NUG announced a two -week break of “offensive military operations, except for defensive actions” in the areas affected by earthquakes. But the Board has not followed its example.
BBC Birmanese reported that seven people were killed in an air strike in Naungch in the state of Northern Shan less than three hours after the first earthquake hit.
The prodemocratic rebel groups that fight to eliminate the military from power also reported aerial bombings in the municipality of Chang-U in the northwest of Saigang, near the epicenter of the earthquake, according to the BBC.
Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur for Myanmar, requested a “high immediate fire” and a suspension of military recruitment.
“Humanitarian workers should not have to fear the arrest and there should be no obstructions to help get to where it takes more,” said Sunday in X. “Every second account.”
For now, the bombs continue to raise in a country that still has their dead.
Freddie Clayton reported from London, and Janis Mackey Frayer and Nat Sumon of Bangkok.
