The rescuers released four people from buildings collapsed in Myanmar on Monday, the Chinese media reported, offering some hopes three days after a massive earthquake that killed around 2,000 when the search engines in Myanmar and Thailand ran to find more survivors.
Among those rescued from the rubble in Mandalay in the early hours of Monday was a pregnant woman and a girl, the Xinhua The news agency reported.
Mandalay is close to the epicenter of the earthquake of 7.7 magnitude on Friday that caused a massive devastation in Myanmar and caused damage and deaths in neighboring Thailand.
China, India and Thailand are among the residents of Myanmar who have sent help and equipment materials, along with help and personnel from Malaysia, Singapore and Russia.
“It doesn’t matter how much time we work. The most important thing is that we can contribute hope to local people,” said Yue Xin, head of the first detachment of China’s search and rescue team, China, Xinhua reported.
In Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, the emergency teams that use cranes and great -granddns for dogs continued a desperate search for 76 people believing buried under the rubble of a scratching under construction that collapsed.
The governor of Bangkok, Chadchart Sittipunt, said rescuers are not giving up despite the three -day conventional wisdom window to find people who approach quickly.
“The search will continue even after 72 hours because in Türkiye, people who have been trapped for a week have survived. The search has not been canceled,” said Chadchart.
He said that the scopes of the rubble machine indicated that there may still be living people underneath, and the dogs of the dogs are being sent to try to identify their locations.
“We have detected weak signs and there are many places,” he said.
The official number of deaths of Thailand was 18 years on Sunday, but could be shot without further bailout at the collapsed construction site.
In Myanmar, state media said at least 1,700 people have been confirmed dead until Sunday.
The Wall Street JournalCiting the ruling military board, he informed that the number of deaths had reached 2,028 in Myanmar. Reuters He could not immediately confirm the new dead number. The United Nations said they were hurrying relief supplies to survivors in the center of Myanmar.
“Our teams in Mandalay are joining efforts to expand the humanitarian response despite going through the trauma themselves,” said Noriko Takagi, representative of the UN refugee agency in Myanmar.
“Time is essential since Myanmar needs solidarity and global support through this immense devastation.”
The United States promised $ 2 million in help “through humanitarian assistance organizations based in Myanmar.” He said in a statement that an emergency response equipment of USAID, which is experiencing mass cuts under the Trump administration, is being deployed in Myanmar.
The devastation of the earthquake has accumulated more misery in Myanmar, already in the chaos of a civil war that arose from a national uprising after a 2021 military coup overthrown to the elected government of the Nobel Prize of the Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi.
A rebel group said that the Governor Army of Myanmar was still carrying out air attacks on peoples after the earthquake, and Singapore’s Foreign Minister asked for a stop immediate fire to help help efforts.
The critical infrastructure, including bridges, roads, airports and railways, throughout the country of 55 million is damaged, decelerating humanitarian efforts, while the conflict that the economy has mistreated, displaced more than 3.5 million people and weakened the health system.
