More survivors took out of the rubble while hundreds are still missing

Four more people have been taken from the rubble almost 60 hours later A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 He hit Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 1,700 people in the country of Southeast Asia.

The survivors were rescued from a school building collapsed in the region of Northern Sagaing, from which a body was also recovered, said the Myanmar Fire Service.

Hundreds of people remain missing, with search and rescue efforts in Myanmar and neighboring Thailand.

The death toll has increased to 18 people in the Thai capital, Bangkok, where 76 workers They are still missing After the collapse of a high -height building that had been under construction.

Friday’s earthquake occurred near the second largest city of Myanmar Mandalay, along the saga failure, with tremors that affect several other nations.

Although rescue efforts have been in motion since Friday, and international aid is beginning to reach Myanamar, there have been delay in reaching the worst hit areas, leaving the premises to try excavate hand survivors.

On Saturday night, an old woman was rescued in the capital of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw, after being trapped for 36 hours below The rubble of a hospital.

The images showed that they took her on a stretcher to an ambulance she waits, surrounded by emergency workers.

Twenty -nine people were also rescued from a block of apartments collapsed in Mandalay, the local fire authority said on Sunday.

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The earthquake hit around 12:50 local time (06:20 GMT) on Friday, just 10 km (6.2 miles) from the surface, which means that its effects at soil level felt more strongly than a deeper earthquake.

A second earthquake hit 12 minutes later, with a magnitude of 6.4 and an epicenter at 18 km (11 miles) south of Sagaing, the regional capital, which is near Mandalay.

Replicas have continued since then. On Sunday there was a tremor of magnitude-5.1 northwest of Mandalay.

Experts say the relative righteousness of the Sagaing fault The seismic waves allowed to travel more than 1,000 km to China and Thailand.

In Bangkok, where the soft floor caused the tremor to be more intense, an unfinished tower block collapsed, burying many who had been working on the site.

Vice -Prime Minister of Thailand, Anutin Charnvirakul, said Sunday that rescuers had detected signs of life under the rubble on the site, but warned that they were weak.

“Anomalies” have been found in the steel used in the construction of the building, and samples for the tests have been collected, the Minister of the Thailand Industry, Akanat Promphan, said Sunday.

Families have anxiously waiting for updates. A woman in Thailand, whose husband was working in the tower when she collapsed, told the BBC that she would wait “while it is needed.”

International rescue teams have joined the disaster effort, with several countries sending assistance to Myanmar. These include:

• Porcelain Send a rescue team of 82 people, along with another for the largest city in the country Yangon
• A team of 51 people who arrive from Hong Kong Sunday
• India Send a help flight with a rescue equipment and emergency supplies
• Malaysia Ministry of Foreign Relations that says that it would send a team of 50 people to support disasters aid operations
• He Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ireland, South Korea and New Zealand Also sending rescue equipment
• United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Lammy promised £ 10 million to help “the most needy”

Meanwhile, the Myanmar ruling Military Board He has continued bombing parts of the country grabbed by the civil war. The UN described the attacks as “completely scandalous and unacceptable.”

The prodemocratic rebel groups that fight to eliminate the military from power have reported aerial bombing in the municipality of Chaung-U in the Sagaing region.

The military regime seized power in a coup in 2021, but no longer many parts of the countrythat are divided between the rebel groups.

The Government of the National Unit, which represents the expelled civil administration, said in a statement that its armed forces would begin a two -week break in “offensive military operations, except for defensive actions” in areas affected by the earthquake.

People in Myanmar could face greater displacement when the monsoon season arrives.

Last year there were “serious floods that damaged the houses (and) sanitation facilities,” said Lauren Ellery, of the International Rescue Committee, BBC Breakfast.

“We are arriving at the Monzón season again in May, with the rain from April,” he said.