By digging with bare hands, Myanmar rescuers have pulled several people who are safe in the days following a 7.7 coarse 7.7 earthquake, videos circulating in the program of social media.
In one, a mobile phone video taken by two teenage girls, aged 13 and 16, shows them trapped with their 75-year-old grandmother in the cramped darkness of a collapsed building in Mandalay, a city near the epicenter of the Friday quake.
“We are trapped here!” We are trapped here! ” One of them desperately calls. A girl hits something metallic on a concrete slab to report to the rescuers where they are.
Only the light of a mobile phone illuminates the claustrophobic scene. In short, we have a glimpse of the bloody face of the grandmother.
Their mobile phone signals have reached residents, who worked feverishly to dig up them. Separate video sequences show a group of men raising pieces of cement with bare hands. “We are ready to discover them!” We shout.
The last seconds of the images show that the three came out of the rubble on civilians on Sunday – a happy ending in the gloom of the worst earthquake to hit Myanmar for decades.
The country managed by the army is poorly equipped to meet the disaster. He was mired in a four -year civil war that has already moved 3 million people.
So far, the Quake has killed more than 3,000 people in Myanmar, according to the military junta who took power in a coup in 2021.
In another video, a 13 -year -old girl named Pan Aye Chon is discovered the rubble of a collapsed monastery in Mandalay after three hours of excavists by rescuers.
While she survived the earthquake, family members say that she has a broken heart that many of her friends who were with her are dead.
When the tremors started at noon on Friday, the girl ran out of the monastery, but then turned to go back to try to save her friends. Then part of the structure fell and trapped it, the family members said.
In the capital, Naycyidaw, a 63 -year -old woman, was saved from rubble after being trapped for 91 hours, almost four days, Reuters reported.
The video has shown that rescuers dressed in orange uniforms in white helmets exciting the partially collapsed remains of a building before the woman is made on a stretcher.
Reuters was able to confirm the location of the video under the name of Naytyitaw of the buildings, the development of the road and the entrance to the hospital, which corresponded to the satellite imagery of the region.
The date on which the video was recorded could not be checked independently, said Reuters. However, a press release from the Myanmar fire services department said that the rescue had taken place on the morning of April 1.
Published by Mat Pennington and Malcolm Foster