The Myanmar earthquake exceeds the death toll of 2,700

BANCOC (AP)-Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the ruins of a building in the Myanmar capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading from finding more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, which doubles a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war.

The NayPyitaw Fire Department said that the woman was successfully withdrawn from the rubble 91 hours after burial when the building collapsed in an earthquake of 7.7 degrees that reached mid -Friday. Experts say that the possibility of finding survivors decreases dramatically after 72 hours.

You expect the number of deaths to increase

The Prime Minister of Myanmar, the chief of Gen. Min Aung Hinging, told a relief donation forum in Naybito that 2719 dead people were now found, with 4,521 others injured and 441 missing, according to MRTV in Myanmar.

He said that the earthquake on Friday was the second strongest in the history of the country registered after the 8th earthquake of Mandalay earthquake in May 1912.

The injuries numbers are expected to rise widely, but the earthquake hit a wide range of the country, leaving many areas without phone connections, phone, cells, roads and harmful bridges, which makes the full range of destruction difficult to evaluate.

Most of the reports came so far from Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar, which was near the earthquake center, and NayPyitaw.

“The needs are enormous, and they rise in the hour,” said Julia Reese, UNICEF's representative in Myanmar.

“The response to life saving closes. Through the affected areas, families face a severe shortage of clean water, food and medical supplies.”

The Myanmar Fire Department said 403 people have been rescued in Mandalay and 259 bodies have been found so far. In one incident, 50 Buddhist monks who were conducting a religious examination were killed in a monastery when the building collapsed, and it is believed that 150 others were buried in the rubble.

Widespread

The World Health Organization said that more than 10,000 buildings in general are known that more than 10,000 buildings have collapsed or severely damaged from the earthquake.

The earthquake also shook the neighboring Thailand, causing a tall building to be collapsed and buried many workers.

Two bodies of the rubble were pulled on Monday and another was recovered on Tuesday, but dozens were still missing. In general, there were 21 people who were killed and 34 in Bangkok, primarily at the construction site.

In Myanmar, search and rescue efforts were stopped across the affected area for a short time in the middle of the day on Tuesday, when people stood for a minute in a silent honor on the dead.

Relief efforts are moving at a slow pace

External relief workers have slowly arrived to help rescue efforts, but progress is backward due to the lack of heavy machinery in many places.

On a site in NayPyitaw on Tuesday, workers formed a human chain, passing by pieces of bricks and concrete hand in hand from the ruins of the collapsed building.

The new international newspaper “Nour New” from Myanmar reported on Tuesday that a team of Chinese rescuers saved four people the previous day of Sky Villa ruins, a large residential complex that collapsed during the earthquake. Among them is a 5 -year -old woman and a pregnant woman who was trapped for more than 60 hours.

I also mentioned that two teenagers were able to crawl from the ruins of the building itself to where the rescue sets were working, using its wrong lamps for the mobile phone to help direct them. The rescue workers then managed to use the details of what they told them to locate their grandmother and brothers.

International rescue teams are from several countries at the scene, including from Russia, China, India, the United Arab Emirates and many Southeast Asian countries. The American embassy said that an American team had been sent, but it has not yet arrived.

Aid pledges flow with officials warning of the risk of disease outbreaks

Meanwhile, many millions of countries have pledged to help help Myanmar organizations and humanitarian aid with the upcoming huge task.

Even before the earthquake, more than 3 million people were displaced from their homes by the civil war in Myanmar, and about 20 million are in need, according to the United Nations.

Many had already lacked basic medical care and standard vaccines, and warned the destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure by the earthquake from the risk of diseases, from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

“The displacement of thousands into overcrowded shelters, in addition to destroying the water and sanitation infrastructure, has greatly increased the risk of spreading infectious diseases.”

He added: “The weakness of respiratory infections, skin diseases, and diseases transmitted by carriers such as dengue, and conjugable diseases such as measles escalating.”

The beginning of the seasonal wind season is also anxious

The shelter also represents a big problem, especially as the seasonal wind season flops.

Since the earthquake, many people have slept abroad, either because the houses were destroyed or fear of final tremors.

Civil war holds relief from disasters

In 2021, the Myanmar army seized power from the democratically elected government in Aung San Suu Ki, which sparked what turned into a major armed resistance and a brutal civil war.

Government forces lost control of a large part of Myanmar, and many places were dangerous or impossible for relief groups even before the earthquake.

Military attacks and those from some anti -decade groups did not stop in the wake of the earthquake, although the government of the national unity of the opposition shadow described one -sided fire.

NG, which was established by the elected lawmakers who were expelled in 2021, called for the international community to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid directly to the earthquake victims, and urged “vigilance against any attempts by the Military Council to transform humanitarian aid or block.”

“Any obstacle to these efforts will have severe consequences, not only because of the impact of the earthquake but also because of the continued brutality of the military council, which impedes the activity of providing assistance to save life,” the group said in a statement.

The ceasefire plan for the armed wing of the sky, called the Popular Defense Force, will not have a major impact on the battlefield, but can attract more international condemnation of the ongoing operations by the army, including the air attacks reported by independent media.

The second armed opposition group, a coalition of three armies of the strong ethnic minority guerrillas called the Muslim Brotherhood's alliance, announced on Tuesday that it would also implement the ceasefire for one month.

However, Mina Ong Hinging seemed to refuse to carry out the ceasefire, saying in his speech on Tuesday that the army would continue to take necessary defensive measures against some ethnic armed groups that have not currently carried out combat operations, but were running military exercises, which were a hostile act.

It was not immediately clear whether the army impedes humanitarian aid. In the past, it initially refused to allow foreign rescue teams or many emergency supplies after a nargis in 2008, which led to more than 100,000 deaths. Even once you allow external assistance, it was with severe restrictions.

However, in this case, Min Ong Hinging said on the day of the earthquake that the country would accept external assistance.

Tom Andrews, a monitoring of rights in Myanmar, commissioned by the unplanned Human Rights Council, said about X to facilitate aid, the military attacks must stop.

“The focus in Myanmar should be on saving lives, not taking them,” he said.

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Grant Beck and Jindamas Saxornshay in Bangkok and Jamey Kiten in Geneva contributed to this story.

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