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Yangon – 1 April 2025
1. Various of people standing around Yangon’s City Hall as siren sounds to observe a minute of silence at 12:51PM local time (0621GMT), the same time the earthquake struck on Friday
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Naypyitaw – 1 April 2025
2. Emergency personnel standing in silence to mourn earthquake victims
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Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed at least 2,000, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a bloody civil war.
The Myanmar fire department in the Naypyitaw said the woman was successfully pulled from the rubble early Tuesday, 91 hours after being buried when the building collapsed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred at midday Friday.
Sirens blared around as people began to observe a moment of silence around Yangon’s City Hall on Tuesday, marking the same the quake struck on Friday.
The earthquake’s epicenter was near Myanmar’s second-largest city Mandalay, and so far the military-run government has reported 2,065 people killed, more than 3,900 injured and 270 missing.
Those figures are widely expected to rise, but the earthquake hit a wide swath of the country, leaving many areas without power, telephone or cell connections and damaging roads and bridges, leaving the full extent of the devastation hard to assess.
Most of the reports so far have come from Mandalay and Naypyitaw.
The World Health Organization said overall, over 10,000 buildings are known to have collapsed or been severely damaged in central and northwest Myanmar.
The earthquake also rocked neighboring Thailand, causing a high-rise building under construction to collapse and burying many workers.
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