Burma earthquake deaths exceed 2,700 as more survivors have been drawn from the rooftop rub

• A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Burma on Friday, killing more than 2,700 people and exacerbating the humanitarian crisis caused by the civil war.
• Though deaths are expected to rise, the earthquake hit a wide area of ​​the country, causing many areas to damage electricity, telephones or cell connections, roads and bridges, making it difficult to assess the full extent of destruction.
• The World Health Organization said more than 10,000 buildings in Burma are known to have collapsed or severely damaged. The earthquake also hit nearby Thailand, causing the collapse of high-rise buildings under construction, and many workers were buried.

Rescuers rescued a 63-year-old woman from a tiled ble of a building in Burma’s capital on Tuesday, but hoped to find more survivors A violent earthquake It killed more than 2,700 people and exacerbated the humanitarian crisis caused by the civil war.

The Naypyitaw fire department said the woman was pulled out of the tile rub 91 hours after being buried when the building collapsed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that reached noon on Friday. Experts say the likelihood of finding a survivor will drop dramatically in 72 hours.

We expect the number of deaths to rise

General Min Aung Fuhring, head of Burmese military government, told the forum in Nepaitau. 2,719 people have been killed, 4,521 people have been injured and 441 have been lost, Myanmar’s Western News Online Portal reported.

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These figures are expected to rise widely, but the earthquakes have hit a wide area of ​​the country, making it difficult for many areas to assess the full extent of devastation without damaging electricity, telephones or cell connections, roads and bridges.

Most of the reports so far come from Mandalay, Burma’s second largest city, near the earthquake epicenter and Naypyitaw.

“The need is huge and rises every hour,” said Julia Rees, UNICEF’s vice president of Burma.

“The windows to save lives are closed. All affected areas face an acute shortage of clean water, food and medical supplies.”

The Burma fire station said 403 people were rescued in Mandalay and 259 bodies had been found so far. In one incident alone, 50 Buddhist monks who had been taking religious examinations at the monastery were killed when the building collapsed and another 150 were thought to be buried in tiled rubs.

Structural damage is extensive

The World Health Organization said over 10,000 buildings are known to have collapsed or severely damaged in central and northwest Burma.

earthquake It also shook the neighboring Thailand.collapses high-rise buildings under construction and buries many workers.

Two bodies were pulled from the Ware Rub on Monday and another body was recovered on Tuesday, but dozens were still missing. Overall, 21 people were killed and 34 injured in Bangkok, mainly at construction sites.

In Burma, search and rescue efforts across the affected area were temporarily suspended as people stood for a minute at noon Tuesday in a tribute to the dead.

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Relief activities moving at a slow pace

Foreign aid workers are arriving slowly to help with rescue operations, but progress has still been slow due to the lack of heavy machinery in many places.

On one site on Naypyitaw on Tuesday, workers formed human chains and held hands to hand over a chunk of bricks and concrete from the ruins of the collapsed building.

The official Burmese new light from the Burmese military government reported on Tuesday that a team of Chinese rescuers had saved four people from the ruins of Sky Villa, a massive apartment that collapsed during the trembling the day before. They included a 5-year-old pregnant woman who had been locked up for more than 60 hours.

The same publication also reported that two teenagers were craving from the tiled rub in the same building and where rescuers were working, and were able to use their cell phone flashlights to guide them. Rescue workers were able to use the details from what they told them to find their grandmother and siblings.

International rescue teams from several countries are on the scene, including Russia, China, India, the United Arab Emirates and several Southeast Asian countries. The US Embassy said that the American team had been sent but had not arrived yet.

A pledge of assistance is put in place to warn you of the risk of disease outbreak

Meanwhile, several countries have pledged millions of aid to support Burma. Humanitarian organizations There is monumental work for the future.

Even before the earthquake, Burma’s brutal civil war evacuated more than 3 million people from their homes and nearly 20 million people were in trouble, according to the United Nations.

Many already lack basic healthcare and standard vaccinations, and earthquake-related destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure increased the risk of disease outbreaks and warned to coordinate UN humanitarian issues.

“The movement of thousands of people to overcrowded shelters, coupled with the destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure, has significantly increased the risk of infectious disease outbreaks,” OCHA said in its latest report.

“The vulnerability to respiratory infections, skin diseases, vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever and vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles is escalating,” he added.

I’m worried about the start of the monsoon season

Shelters are also a big problem. The monsoon season is especially approaching.

Since the earthquake, many people have slept outside because their homes had been destroyed or feared aftershocks.

Civil Wars complicate disaster relief

Burmese military seized power from Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in 2021, causing what turned into serious armed resistance and a brutal civil war.

Government forces lost many control in Burma, and many locations were dangerous or impossible for aid groups to reach even before the earthquake.

The Shadow Rictition National Unity government has called a one-sided ceasefire for its troops, a military attack that has not stopped in the aftermath of the earthquake, which has been called a one-sided ceasefire for its troops.

The Burmese government claims it has killed 76 villagers.

Founded by elected lawmakers who were expelled in 2021, NUG called on the international community to ensure humanitarian aid was directly delivered to earthquake victims, urging “vigilance against attempts by the junta to bypass or obstruct humanitarian aid.”

“We are racing against time to save lives,” Nag said in a statement.

“The interference of these efforts has devastating consequences. The impact of earthquakes However, the continued atrocities of the junta actively hinder the provision of life support. ”

It was not immediately clear whether the military was blocking humanitarian aid. In the past, it initially refused to allow foreign rescue teams or many emergency supplies after Cyclone Nargis in 2008. Even granting foreign aid was severely restricted.

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However, in this case, Min Aung Hlaing said on the day of the earthquake the state would accept outside help.

Tom Andrews, a Burmese rights monitor commissioned by the UNBacked Human Rights Council, said military attacks must be stopped to promote aid in X.

“The focus of Burma must be to save lives, not to take lives,” he said.