Emergency aid has come across in the two days since a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia in Myanmar and Thailand. Aid measures focus on Myanmar, where the estimated number of fatalities rose to 1,644 by Sunday.
The number of deaths from the quake of Fridays 7.7 is expected to increase. The number of injuries was 3,408, while the estimated number of missing errors rose to 139 on Sunday.
The epicenter of the earthquake was near Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city with 1.5 million people. In neighboring Thailand, the number of fatalities rose from the quake to 17.
While food, medicine and other important care have reached myanmar, a report that was published on Saturday by the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian matters that rescue efforts were disabled by a serious lack of medical care, including trauma kits, blood bag, anesthetic, aids, essential medicine and campaigns for health professions.
“We fear that it will take weeks for us to understand the full extent of the destruction caused by this earthquake,” said Mohammed Riyas, the director of the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Report on Junta start air strikes
In the middle of the earthquake crisis, the Myanar military led air strikes in the villages on Sunday, according to the Karen National Union, one of the oldest ethnic armies in the country.
The group said that the military would prioritize auxiliary measures under normal circumstances, but would concentrate on “the use of forces to attack its people”.
A spokesman for Junta did not answer questions about the group’s statement.
Myanmar has been locked up with several armed opposition groups in the civil war in 2021 when the military conquered the power of the elected government of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Myanmar man pulled out of ruins alive
In bad Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s third largest city, was on Sunday by rescue teams from Singapore and Myanmar of rescue teams from Singapore and Myanmar in Myanmar’s army TV, a man who was caught under the rubble of a collapsed building for about 40 hours.
According to firefighters, the man was caught under a collapsed three -story building and was extracted with “cutting and breaking devices” to tear through the concrete. It remains in a stable state and was taken to a local hospital.
In Thailand, the search emphasis on rescue workers and K-9 units on Sunday in the capital Bangkok at the scene, which collapsed in the quake.
A mother of a missing construction worker was deeply seen when she watched the search mission on Sunday and repeatedly called for the name of her daughter.
At least 78 people remain trapped under the ruins of the collapsed building, but the conditions of the pile of rubble and the unstable structure hinder the rescue efforts.
“The area in which we could work is very limited due to metal waste and sharp edges. It is also difficult for us to try to get in, so we had to try to find (paths inside) from the edges or where the dogs can go into account,” said a K-9 unit officer of the K-9 unit on site.
“Overall feeling in Thailand is great sadness”
A Canadian visitor in Thailand, said Rich, was on the top floor of a three -story market building in Chiang Mai when the earthquake beat. She was sitting on the floor when the building fluctuated and hoped that the roof would not collapse on us. “
Rich said when she reached street level, she saw around 2,000 people on the street, “very disturbed and shaken”.
“The general feeling in Thailand is a great sadness. Many people from Myanmar work in Thailand. So there are many close connections like the family, even though it is another country,” she told CBC News on Sunday and spoke of the Thai island of Kos Samet.
On Sunday it was expected to reach a convoy of 17 Chinese cargo cars with critical protection and medical care Mandalay. China said that more than 135 rescue staff and experts sent it together with supplies such as medical kits, generators, earthquake detectors and drones and at the same time promised around 13.8 million dollars in emergency aid.
Hong Kong sent 51 search and rescue workers on Saturday, including firefighters and ambulance staff as well as two search and rescue dogs. The group brought eight tons of devices, including life detectors and an automatic satellite tracking antenna system, according to an explanation on the Hong Kong government.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency said that it had flown in 120 rescue workers and supplies to Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, and the Russia Ministry of Health said that Moscow had sent a medical team to specialists in contagious illnesses, revival, revival, resuscitation, traumatology and psychology as well as search and rescue teams with delenes and devices, except for 4.5 -Meters could have sent, sent.
Rescue teams in Myanmar and Thailand work tirelessly to pull survivors from rubble after the region shook the region on Friday. The number of fatalities has already exceeded 1,600 and the authorities expect them to continue to increase.
Two Indian C-17 military transport aircraft brought a field hospital unit and around 120 employees on Saturday who traveled north to Mandalay to found an emergency treatment center with 60 beds, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. India previously announced to send five aircraft and four ships with relief goods together with rescue and medical teams.
Aid agencies that contribute to this
The UN Humanitarian Affairs office announced that it had mobilized with other groups and that $ 5 million were assigned to a central emergency fund for “life-saving help”.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies published US dollars in emergency funds of 2.2 million US dollars to support the work of the organization in Myanmar, said Jagan Chapagain, General Secretary and CEO of the organization, in a social media post on Sunday.
A strong earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killed several people, brought a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok and stormed buildings in neighboring Myanmar, where the ruling Junta declared a state of emergency in some areas.
Cara Bragg, the manager based in Yangon for Catholic auxiliary services in Myanmar, said that the auxiliary measures were largely made up of local volunteers who attempted to find relatives.
Despite the influx of countries that send search and rescue teams, “hospitals really have difficulty dealing with the influx of injured people, there is a lack of medical care, and people are struggling to find food and clean water,” said Bragg.
