Mandalay, Myanmar (AP)-The scent of decomposing bodies in the streets of the second largest city in Myanmar on Sunday where people worked feverish at the hands of a tube in the hope of finding someone alive, two days after hitting huge earthquakes that killed more than 1,600 people, and left others who are not held.
The earthquake, which has a size of 7.7 in mid -Friday, was with an equality center near Mandalai, which dropped dozens of buildings and destroy other infrastructure, such as the city airport.
Relief efforts have been hindered through the roads full of bridges, intermittent communications, and the challenges of work in a country in the midst of a civil war.
The search for survivors was carried out primarily by the local population without the help of heavy equipment, and moving the rubble by hand with scrutiny at 41 ° C (106 Fahrenheit), with just an accidental follower.
On Sunday afternoon, a tremor pushed a scream on the streets, and then continued to work.
Many of the 1.5 million Mandalay people spent tonight sleeping in the streets, either they left homeless by the earthquake, which also shook the neighboring Thailand and killed at least 18 people there, or worried that the continuous final tremors may cause unstable structures.
No areas have not been reached
So far, 1644 people have been reported in Myanmar and 3,408 wounds, but many areas have not yet been reached, and rescue efforts have yet been done by people who are working manually to try to clear revenge.
“The local volunteers were mainly, and the local residents who were only trying to find their loved ones,” said Prague after being brought by her colleague in Mandalaay.
“I have also seen reports that some countries send search and rescue teams to Mandalay to support efforts, but hospitals are really struggling to deal with the flow of the injured, there is a lack of medical supplies, and people are struggling to find food and clean water,” added Prague.
The organization was sending a team by road on Sunday to assess the most urgent needs of peoples so that it could target its own response.
As Mandalay Airport was damaged and the surveillance tower declined at Naybitao Airport, all commercial flights were closed.
Naypitaw’s official relief efforts were giving priority to government offices and employee housing, leaving the local population and relief groups for drilling via hand in hand in residential areas, and the hot sun hit and smells of death in the air.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that a team he sent from neighboring China saved an older man who has been detained for approximately 40 hours under the ruins of NayPitaw Hospital, and it is believed that many others are still buried.
Myanmar is on the mistake of the epic, which is a major mistake in the north and south that separates the Indian painting and the Sunda plate.
The earthquake occurred when the 200 kilometers section (125 miles) was torn, causing widespread damage along a wide range of lands in the middle of the country, including the epic areas, Mandalay, Maguwa, Paru, and the state of Shan.
With a large scale power outage, a few details appeared away from areas other than the main urban areas of Mandalay and Niabitao.
External aid begins to reach Myanmar
However, two Indian Military Transport planes managed to land late on Saturday in NayPitaw with a field hospital unit and about 120 individuals who were traveling north to Mandalay to establish a 60-bed emergency treatment center, according to the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other Indian supplies were transferred to Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, which was the center of other foreign relief efforts.
On Sunday, a convoy of 17 Chinese shipping trucks with critical shelter and medical supplies were expected to arrive in Mandalay, after making the arduous journey through the road from Yangon.
A 650 km (400 miles) journey took 14 hours or more, with clogged roads and traffic from the main highway to the skirt damage from the earthquake.
At the same time, the opportunity window to find anyone alive is closed quickly. Most rescue operations occur within the first 24 hours after a disaster, then the chances of survival decrease with the passage of every day.
A preliminary report on the relief efforts issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicated severe damage or the destruction of many health facilities, and warned that “the severe shortage of medical supplies hinders response efforts, including shock groups, bloody bags, performance, auxiliary tools, basic doctor and clothing for health labor.”
China said it had sent more than 135 rescue personnel and experts along with supplies such as medical groups and generators and pledged about $ 13.8 million as emergency aid. The Russian Emergency Ministry said it had flew in 120 rescuers and supplies to Yangon, and the country’s Ministry of Health said that Moscow had sent a medical team to Myanmar.
Teams from Singapore already operate in NayPitaw. Malaysia sent a team of 50 employees on Sunday with trucks, search and rescue equipment and medical supplies. Thailand said that 55 of its soldiers arrived in Yangon on Sunday to help search and rescue operations, while Britain announced a $ 13 million aid package to help its locally funded partners in Myanmar respond to the crisis.
He informed 18 dead people in Thailand
In the neighboring Thailand, the earthquake shook most of the country, dropping a tall building under construction in Bangkok, about 300 km (800 miles) from the mile center.
To date, 11 dead people have been found on the construction site near the famous Catuchak market. A total of 18 people have been reported by the earthquake in Thailand so far.
Rescue efforts in Myanmar complicated the civil war
In Myanmar, also known as Burma, the rescue efforts have so far focused on Mandalay and Niabito, which is believed to have been the most difficult blow, but many other areas were also affected and only little was known about the damage there.
“We hear reports about hundreds of people trapped in different regions,” said Prague. “At the present time, we are in 1600 (known death) and we do not have a lot of data that comes out but you have to assume that it will increase in thousands based on what the effects are. This is just anecdotal information at this stage.”
Besides the damage of the earthquake, the rescue efforts are complicated by the bloody civil war wandering in most countries, including in the areas affected by the earthquake. In 2021, the army seized power from the elected government in Aung San Suu Ki, which has since turned into major armed resistance.
Government forces have lost control of many Myanmar, and many places are dangerous or impossible to reach relief groups. More than 3 million people were descended due to the fighting and about 20 million in need, according to the United Nations.
The government army has been fighting firm militias for a long time and the Popular Defense Forces supporting democracy, and it may greatly restrict aid efforts that affect the large population displaced people already before the war even before the earthquake.
Military attacks with air strikes continued on Friday and reports of mortar and drone attacks on Saturday.
Tom Andrews, a monitoring of rights in Myanmar, commissioned by the uninterrupted human rights council, called on the army to call the ceasefire immediately.
He said on X.
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RISING and PECK mentioned from Bangkok. Gentamas Saxornshay in Bangkok, Simina Missariano in Taipei, Taiwan and Eileen Nug in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia contributed to this report.
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This story was corrected to show that the army seized power in 2021, not in 2001.