Change in the 30 -story Bangkok building reduced to debris

As the sun puts on Bangkok, hundreds of rescue workers desperately seek survivors in the collapsed 30 -story skyscraper in a construction site in the capital of Thailand.

Rescuers are trying to reach dozens of workers trapped in the rubble after the skyscraper collapsed.

Standing on a bridge a short distance from the scene, under the orange brightness of the sky, a group of reporters, including myself, looks incredulously in the three -story concrete batteries.

Twisted wire and metal standing out.

Although more rescue teams and professional military arrive and reflectors are erected, it seems that there are little chances of finding many survivors.

An earthquake of magnitude of 7.7 shades arrived in the center of Myanmar and was followed minutes later by a replica of magnitude of 6.4, spilling buildings and roads of rupture.

Here, on the other side of the border in Thailand, the clashes and devastation were also felt. Residents fight to respond to a natural disaster to which few are accustomed.

I was in my house when the smoothies began and it was different from everything I had felt before.

The collapsed building, belonging to the National Audit Office, was under construction for three years at a cost of more than two billion Thai of Thai ($ 59 million; £ 45m), now reduced to debris.

White tents have erected in the perimeter as rescuers with bright yellow haute hats that work to free an estimated 81 people still trapped under collapsed skyscrapers.

Thailand Defense Minister Phumtham Wechacha told journalists that three people had been confirmed dead. Previously, I saw that two covered bodies were taken to the tents.

The road to the side of the building is full of firefighters, ambulances and other rescue vehicles. Curious civilians have joined us on the bridge, observing in an attempt to understand what is happening.

Heavy machinery is beginning to arrive, including a large crane. Rescuers say they need to eliminate debris before they can start looking for the disappeared.

I arrived less than an hour after the collapse to find construction workers covered with dust, stunned by what they had just survived.

Adisorn Kamphaorn had been demolishing materials from the sixth floor when he suddenly felt the tremor. The 18 -year -old looked at the ladder and saw a crane trembling.

He told me: “I knew I was about to be bad. I ran. He took a minute collapsed. Suddenly, he had smoke everywhere and everything came out black. I couldn’t breathe. He didn’t have a mask.”

He had not yet talked to his family because he lost his phone in chaos, saying that he had never experienced something like that in his life. He thought he was going to die.

Construction workers tell me that they were a mixture of Thai and Burmese.

Nukul Khemutha, 30, was working on the fifth floor when he felt the tremors. He looked up and saw all the floors sinking, holes were formed.

He said that one of his colleagues had just climbed on the tenth floor to use the bathroom and are still waiting for news from his whereabouts. He told me: “We were all shouting ‘run’ and tell us that they take hands and ran together.”

When I talked to them, they sat there smoking, trying to calm down. They looked sad. None of the survivors had received medical help, since all the attention focused on those who were still trapped.

As the sound of drilling intensifies, rescue workers face a long night ahead.

Additional Rachel reports in London