Match against time the rescue teams give to the Myanmar that was almost leveled by the earthquake Richter 7.7 Monster on March 28th. At least 1,664 people were killed, according to the newest official report, while dozens are missing.
The earthquake in Myanmar, according to the latest report, has caused the deaths of 1,664 people while 3,408 are injured and at least 139 missing. Also, ten people were killed, 42 injured and 78 are considered missing in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
One of the dozens of buildings that the “mammoth” earthquake in Myanmar was down is a high school in the suburbs of Mandalei, the second largest city of this Asian country, ruled by a junta.
‘People are digging with their hands to remove rubble’ described a citizen in the BBC, asking for anonymity to be preserved, and revealed that he gave water with straw to a child who had just been recovered from debris.
Rescuers climbed today (29.03.2025) in the wreckage of the private high school “Wisdom Villa”, until they reached a door that prevented them from continuing.
They shouted: “Is there anyone in?”
The dozens of people who had gathered around and watched were quiet, waiting to hear a cry, a voice, a whisper. Nothing.
The six -storey building collapsed from the earthquake on March 28th. Everything left is ruins about a height and a half -floor height. Railways pop up between the pieces of concrete, distorted like trees roots, tired of the 7.7 earthquake. Between the debris lies, with the face in the soil, a giant plush teddy bear, dressed in a pink t -shirt.
‘I’m alive here’
According to residents, at least seven people remain trapped inside the school. The two are teachers, the rest of the students. Another seven were killed and two were recovered alive, hours after the earthquake.
Dozens of people, relatives or neighbors of the missing, sit around the building, waiting to hear a good news.
Yin Nou, whose 26 -year -old daughter, Yamin Sue Zin, is a educator and trapped in the building, is trying to stay calm. Rescuers say earlier heard Yamin shout: “I’m the teacher Yamin. I’m alive here. Help me, please. I am thirsty »allegedly said.
From that moment on, her mother counts for hours. ‘I didn’t close the eye all night’he says with tears in his eyes. “I was twisting like the crazy around the building. All I could do was shout her name and cry. Nothing else ».
This school is attended by about 200 students, aged 12 – 15 years. The quarter was over and, fortunately, most of them were gone. Those in one of his two buildings were able to leave. Those who were in the other and rehearsed for the forthcoming water feast, the traditional New Year in Myanmar, were trapped in the ruins.
“I managed to escape,” said 35 -year -old teacher Kim Zin, who carries a big trauma on the front. “Here we are talking about natural disaster, this can happen at any time,” he said.
Rescuers are trying to open a passage between the concrete slabs to reach the point where they assume that the trapped are.
Gin mind hopes that her daughter, one of her four children, survived. “My son said he was afraid he wouldn’t come out alive. I find it difficult to accept it, it’s my daughter. It was always careful. Whenever she goes to the temple or visits an iceberg, she prays to become the daughter who will nurture her elderly parents, “she said.