There is less and less survivors in Mandalay’s ruins, where some inhabitants spent the third night sleeping outdoors, after at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and neighboring Thailand were killed.
Rescue efforts were less active in the central Myanmar city with more than 1.7 million people early on Monday, but conditions are difficult – temperatures are expected to reach about 40 degrees Celsius.
The adhesive heat exhausted the rescuers and speeds up the disintegration of the body, which could make it difficult to identify.
Muslim believers must have gathered near the destroyed mosque in the city in the morning at the first prayer of Ramadan Bajram, the holiday that follows after the Islamic month of Ramadan. Today, the racks of hundreds of victims are expected.
The starting earthquake of Magnitude 7.7 occurred near Mandalaya on Friday early afternoon, after which a few minutes later the subsequent earthquake of magnitude 6.7 was followed.
The earthquakes are demolished buildings and bridges and raided roads, and some of the most difficult destruction suffered the central part of Myanmar.
Subsequent earthquakes were still felt in Mandalay over the weekend, which made the residents fled to the streets panic on several occasions.
The International Federation of the Company of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent on Sunday has launched an emergency appeal for more than 100 million dollars to help victims.
The world’s largest humanitarian network said the needs grow from an hour in a watch because the growing temperatures and approaching the monsoon season increase the risk of “secondary crises.”
In the capital of Thailand Bangkok – about 1,000 kilometers away from Mandalay – Rain falls on Monday morning at the place of a demolished skyscraper that was under construction, Hina reports Hina.
At least 18 people were killed in Bangkok, the city authorities announced on Sunday, 33 were injured, and 78 were conducted as missing.
Most of the dead were workers who died in the collapse of skyscrapers, while for most of the missing believes they were trapped under a huge pile of ruins in place where the skyscraper was.
Dogs Seekers and unpiloted aircraft with thermalism are arranged to seek signs of life in a crashed skyscraper, located near the weekend of Chatuchak Market.
(Vijesti.ba)
