Hunderts of rescue workers frantically search for victims at the 30-storey building on a design webpage in Thailand’s funds as the sun sets over Bangkok.
Different staff were stranded in the wreckage after the building collapsed, according to rescuers.
A group of writers, including myself, are watching in amazement as a group of reporters stand on a gate a little distance from the landscape while the orange shine of the sky obscures the three-storey-high piles of concrete.
Metal and twisted cable jut away.
There seems little chance of finding some victims, despite the arrival of more elite save teams and military personnel and the construction of floodlights.
Central Myanmar was struck by a deep earthquake of magnitude 7.7, which immediately followed by a magnitude 6.4 % tremor, which erupted, causing damage to roads and destroyed structures.
The surprises and destruction were likewise felt below, across the border in Thailand. People have a hard time coping with a natural disaster that few are used to.
The shakings that I experienced at home were unlike anyone I’ve ever experienced.
The collapsed building, which belongs to the national audit office, had been under construction for three years at a cost of more than two billion Thai baht ( £45m ), and is now reduced to rubble.
An estimated 81 people are still trapped beneath the collapsed building as firefighters wear vivid yellow difficult clothes and have constructed white houses along the boundary.
Phumtham Wechai, the minister of defense of Thailand, reported to investigators that three people had been confirmed useless. I witnessed two filled bodies being transported to the huts just under an hour before.
The road that runs right next to the tower is filled with evacuation vehicles, including ambulances and fire engines. On the gate, obnoxious residents have gathered to watch in an effort to understand what is happening.
A huge crane and other large equipment are beginning to appear. Before they can begin looking for the missing, volunteers claim they need them to reduce the dust.
Construction workers were covered in dust and stunned by what they had only survived, when I arrived less than an afternoon after the decline.
When Adisorn Kamphasorn felt the tremor while bringing items downward from the fifth floor, he was bringing them down. The 18-year-old witnessed a hoist swaying as he approached the staircase.
He said,” I was anticipating something bad.” I ran. It lasted just one moment before it fell. All of a sudden, all turned black and there was smoke outside. I was unable to breath. I wasn’t wearing a mask.
He claimed he had never had anything like it in his life, but because he lost his telephone in the conflict, he had not spoken to his family already. He believed he would pass away.
The development staff describe themselves as being a mix of Thai and Burmese.
When Nukul Khemutha, 30, sensed the numbness, he was working on the second floor. He observed the decks sagging and crevassing with holes as he looked up.
He claimed that one of his coworkers had just entered the twelfth floor to use the restroom, and that they are still waiting to learn about his whereabouts. He said,” We were all just screaming “run” and telling one another to hold hands and run together.
When I spoke with them, they were smoking and trying to settle down. They appeared depressed. Because all the attention was focused on those also trapped, none of the victims had received medical care.
Rescue workers have a long night ahead as the tone of drilling increases.
Rachel Hagan provided further reporting in London.