(2 Apr 2025)
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Naypyitaw, Myanmar – 2 April 2025
1. Exterior of damaged residential building
2. People in damaged building
3. Hole in floor
4. Rescuer working
5. Rescue worker standing up
6. Various of damage seen from window
7. Exterior of building
STORYLINE:
Rescue crews in Myanmar were grappling with a mammoth clear-up operation on Wednesday, five days after a powerful earthquake slammed the southeast Asian country, toppling buildings and killing thousands.
In the capital, Naypyitaw, AP footage showed a small rescue crew searching through the twisted wreckage of a heavily damaged residential building.
While still standing, much of the building’s interior appeared to be destroyed.
Separately, another crew in Naypyitaw pulled a 26-year-old man out alive from the rubble of the hotel where he worked , but most teams were finding only bodies.
After using an endoscopic camera to pinpoint Naing Lin Tun’s location in the rubble and confirm that he was alive, the man was gingerly pulled through a hole jackhammered through a floor and loaded on to a gurney nearly 108 hours after he was trapped in the hotel where he worked.
Shirtless and covered in dust, Naing Lin Tun appeared weak but conscious in a video released by the local fire department, as he was given an IV drip and taken to the hospital. State-run MRTV reported that the rescue in the city of Naypyitaw was carried out by a Turkish and local team and took more than nine hours.
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit midday Friday, toppling thousands of buildings, collapsing bridges and buckling roads.
So far, 2,886 people have been reported dead in Myanmar and another 4,639 injured, according to state television MRTV, but local reports suggest much higher figures.
The earthquake also rocked neighboring Thailand, causing the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok.
One body was removed from the rubble early Wednesday, raising the death total in Bangkok to 22 with 34 injured, primarily at the construction site.
Myanmar has been wracked by civil war and the earthquake is making a dire humanitarian crisis even worse, with more than 3 million people displaced from their homes and nearly 20 million in need even before it hit, according to the United Nations.
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