OR Myanmar will keep a minute silence tomorrow (01.04.2025) for the thousands of victims left behind by the devastating earthquake of 7.7 points on the Richter scale. The terrible earthquake, which hit the country, killed more than 2000 people, the military junta in power announced today (31.03.2025).
In Myanmar will stop every activity tomorrow for a minute at 12.51 and two seconds local time (08.21 hours of Greece), at the time when the 7.7 -magnitude earthquake hit the Asian country, became known by the junta in a press release.
Earlier, the military junta announced that it was preaching a week of national mourning in the country after the deadly earthquake, which killed more than 2,000 people on March 28, while hopes of finding survivors are declining time by time.
The period of mourning lasts until Sunday, April 6, the military reported in a press release, announcing that the flags would wave melting “as a sign of compassion for human casualties and damage caused by the extremely violent earthquake”.
Experts are fearing for additional thousands of dead in Myanmar, despite the mobilization of the international community, which has rushed to help this country plagued by the Civil War and lacking resources in front of the magnitude of the disaster.
There is still life in debris
The rescue teams unloaded four people, including one pregnant and a girl from leveled buildings in Mandalei, reported the Chinese news agency “Xinhua”.
Chinese rescuers, wearing red helmets, carried a survivor, who had wrapped in a thermal blanket, next to piles of damnations in a block of flats in Mandalei, according to images broadcast by the Chinese state television network “CCTV”.
Last Friday at noon, an earthquake measured 7.7 degrees hit the central Myanmar, and a few minutes later a 6.7 -magnitude earthquake was followed. During the weekend (29.03.2025 – 30.03.2025), a series of powerful aftershocks were recorded along the Shangaging rift, around which much of the population of Myanmar lives.
The earthquake, unprecedented for decades in Myanmar, has caused scenes of chaos of up to 1,000 kilometers from the focus, such as in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, where at least 19 people have lost their lives, especially when collapsing a 30 -storey -height.
In Mandalei, the second largest city in Myanmar, which is close to the focus, rescue teams were currently working at a less intense pace compared to yesterday. The heat, with mercury reaching 40 degrees Celsius at noon, burden rescuers who attempt around the damaged buildings and accelerating the decomposition of corpses trapped under the ruins, complicating their identification.
As Mandalei’s 1,000 General Hospital was evacuated, hundreds of patients take care of outdoor areas. “It’s a very, very incomplete situation for the whole world,” said one member of the medical team. “We’re doing the best.”
Funerals at the end of Ramadan
The funerals of hundreds of victims are expected to take place today, as the mournful Muslim community is celebrating Eid, the celebration that marks the end of the month of Ramadan.
“Under normal circumstances, we would be very happy as it is Eid,” said Win Tiri Aung, a 26 -year -old faithful from Mandalei. “But our hearts are heavy this year.”
The Myanmar authorities today spoke of about 2,056 dead, 3,900 injured and 270 missing.
The French Foreign Ministry announced the deaths of two French nationals who had visited Myanmar.
Three Chinese nationals were also killed in the earthquake, the state -run news agency “Xinhua” reported.