A Red Cross official told AFP on Saturday ( Mar 29 ) that more than 90 people were trapped inside the crushed remains of a devastating earthquake-ravaged Mandalay apartment block as rescuers worked to free the victims.
The Mandalay sky villa property development, which had several of its 12 metres stacked upside-down, was one of the worst-hit buildings from Friday’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake.
The Red Cross established at the image, who spoke to AFP for the first time and asked for privacy, stated,” Nine people are dead and 44 have been extracted alive.
” There might be more than 90 in. People keep telling us they’re looking for their lost family members, so we’re also gathering information.
More than 1, 000 people have been killed by the earthquake in Myanmar, but contacts are severely hampered and the real extent of the crisis is only just beginning to become apparent.
With a community of over 1.7 million, Mandalay, the second-largest area, has been severely hit as a result of the country’s largest earthquake in years.
The 12 storey Horizon Villa Condo’s 12 metres were reduced to six by the earthquake, with the cracked beige natural lower flooring perched on the crushed bones of the lower decks.
A woman’s arm and hair are hanging down, and her body is sticking out of the aircraft.
As they attempted to open up passageways for those trapped inside the ruins, rescuers laboriously climbed over the wreckage and aircraft before handing pieces of wreckage and wreckage.