The rescuers were still withdrawing the survivors of the rubble when it struck one of many final tremors on Sunday, sending people in Mandalay-second largest city in Myanmar, and the mile center. The 7.7 -size earthquake on Friday – Screaming in the streets.
He is already suffering A brutal outcome of four years of civil warOne of the poorest countries in the world is now facing the humanitarian crisis and crushing losses from a strong earthquake At least 1,600 people were killed Call, and aid is struggling to reach those in need of fortified roads and collapsed infrastructure.
In addition to the injury, the ruling military council, Myanmar ContinueThe civil war also intersects with the natural catastrophe and deepening the crisis.
On Friday, the earthquake has paralyzed the basic services of the nation and made a critical pies of its roads improper. Hospitals are mired and operated on medicine and blood.
The roads and piles of damaged debris, including those that are traveling north to Mandalay of Naibidao, the capital, and Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, slow the entry of aid to the most affected areas, according to what he said. United Nations Humanitarian Aid OfficeBesides “wireless and wireless communications and online disorders.”
The United Nations said that immediate needs include clothes, blankets, kitchen groups, emergency shelters, water, sanitation, hygiene, and food. “Hospitals and health facilities have been damaged or widespread.”
While aid flows, residents and rescue men dig through the debris in search of survivors.
The video verified by Reuters has been verified Chinese rescuers They work all night in NayPyidaw, using their hands and sculpture, digging through the collapsed building wreck before withdrawing an elderly person, barely realized, from the rubble, hours after the first earthquake.
In Sky Villa Condinium, which collapsed in Mandalay, dozens of rescue men pulled a woman, crying, from debris. According to the BBC, 29 people were rescued from the complex, and nine.
“Thousands of people spend nights in the streets or open spaces due to damage and destruction at home, or for fear of earthquakes,” the United Nations said in a statement on Saturday.
Some countries have participated to help Myanmar respond to the emergency. Russia has sent two planes with 120 rescuers and supplies to the nation, according to the government news agency, while the Chinese embassy on Facebook said it had sent a team of 37 people to Yangon with medicine and equipment to detect survivors.
Teams from IndiaSingapore and Thailand are also working on Earth, according to Reuters.
In the neighboring Thailand, where many people died and dozens remain missing, drones over the dust Mountain, the twisted reinforcing unitary, a 30 -storey building.
The ruler of Bangkok, Chadchartt Siteont, said on Sunday morning that it is still possible to discover the signs of life in the debris.
However, the rain threatens to slow the rescue efforts. There is still more than 48 hours on the collapse of the building, relatives of the trapped on the site – are monitoring and hope that more missing persons will be found soon.
But Myanmar bears the heaviest losses from the disaster, stinging on the crises that preceded it long before the earthquake was hit.
According to the International Rescue Committee, more than 19 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
The World Food Program says that the lack of food security in Myanmar affects 15.2 million people. Last year, the United Nations Security Council expressed concern about “denying access to medicine and medical care” in the wake of attacks on health care and stories on medicines.
The military regime seized power in a coup four years ago, which led to the overthrow of the Democratic Nobel Prize winner, Aung San Suu Ki, the former leader of the country. Since then, the country has been grabbed by the civil war, as the Military Council to crush the armed rebel groups in the country, including the National Unity Government (NUG), has been fighting the Myanmar government in exile.
On Saturday, NUG announced a two -week interruption of “offensive military operations, with the exception of defense measures” in the areas affected by the earthquake. But the military council did not follow its followers.
The BBC Bormes reported that seven people were killed in an air strike in Nongcho, Northern Shan, less than three hours after hitting the first earthquake.
The rebel groups supporting democracy, which are fighting to remove the army, have reported air bombings in the town of Chango, northwest of Sigang, near the earthquake center, according to the BBC.
Tom Andrews, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Myanmar, called for a “immediate ceasefire” and the suspension of military recruitment.
He said on Sunday at X.
Currently, bombs continue to fall into a country that still counts his death.
Freddy Cleiton from London, Janes Maki Fryer and Nat Somon from Bangkok.
