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The rescuers work on the site of a building that collapsed in Mandalay, Myanmar,
On Friday, four other people were removed from the rubble almost 60 hours after a powerful earthquake of magnitude of 7.7 struck in Myanmar, killing at least 1,700 people in the country of Southeast Asia.
The survivors were saved from a collapsed school building in the northern Sagaing region, from which a body was also recovered, the Myanmar fire service said.
Hundreds of people remain missing, with research and rescue efforts in progress in Myanmar and neighboring Thailand.
The number of deaths reached 18 people in the Thai capital, Bangkok, where 76 workers are still missing following the collapse of a high -rise building that had been under construction.
Friday’s earthquake occurred near the second mandalay of the city of Myanmar, along the fault of Sagain – with tremors affecting several other nations.
Although rescue efforts have been underway since Friday and international aid is starting to reach Myanamar, there have been delays to reach the most affected areas, letting residents try to dig the survivors in hand.
On Saturday evening, an elderly woman was rescued in the capital of Myanmar, not Pyi Taw, after being trapped for 36 hours under the rubble of a hospital.
Images have shown it transported on a stretcher to an ambulance pending, surrounded by rescue.
Watch: when the rescuers reach an elderly woman trapped for 36 hours
Twenty-nine people were also saved from a collapsed building in Mandalay, the local fire authority announced on Sunday.
The earthquake struck the local time around 12:50 pm (06:20 GMT) Friday, only 10 km (6.2 miles) of the surface – which means that its effects in the ground have been felt more strongly than a deeper earthquake.
A second earthquake struck 12 minutes later, with a magnitude of 6.4 and an epicenter of 18 km (11 miles) south of Sagaing, the regional capital, which is near Mandalay.
The aftershocks have continued since. On Sunday, a 5.1 magnitude tremor was recorded northwest of Mandalay.
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On Sunday, more survivors were removed from the rubble in Mandalay
In Bangkok, where the soft ground made the tremors more intense, an unnoticed block of tower has collapsed, burying many who had worked on the site.
Thai vice-prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul said on Sunday that rescuers had detected signs of life under the rubble on the site, but warned that they were weak.
The “anomalies” were found in the steel used in building building, and samples were taken for tests, said Minister of Industry Thailand on Sunday.
Families are impatiently awaiting updates. A woman in Thailand, whose husband worked on the tower when she collapsed, told the BBC that she was waiting for “as long as he would take it”.
Watch: on the site of the collapse of the Bangkok tower
International rescue teams joined the disaster effort, several countries sending myanmar aid. These include:
China sending a team of 82 people of rescue for 51 people arriving from Hong Kong on Sunday in INSIDA by sending a help flight transporting a rescue team and emergency services from the Salalaysia Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Indonesia, Ireland, South Korea and New Zealand, New Zealand, to help “most of them in need”
Meanwhile, the Military Milita Military of Myanmar continued to bomb parts of the civil country of the civil war. The UN described attacks as “completely scandalous and unacceptable”.
The pro-democracy rebel groups that fight to withdraw the military from power reported aerial attacks in the canton of Chaung-U in the Sagaing region.
The military regime took power during a coup in 2021, but it no longer controls many parts of the country, which are divided between rebel groups.
The national government of unity, which represents the ousted civil administration, said that its armed forces would begin a two -week break in “offensive military operations, with the exception of defensive actions” in the areas affected by the earthquake on Sunday.
Residents of Myanmar could face another trip when the monsoon season arrives.
Last year, there were “serious floods that damaged the houses (and) sanitation facilities,” said Lauren Ellery, of the International Rescue Committee, at BBC Breakfast.
“We arrive again in the Mousson season in May, with rain starting in April,” she said.
