Associated Press
Bangkok (AP) -On Tuesday, rescue teams saved a 63 -year -old woman from a building in the capital of Myanmar, but the hope of finding more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed at least 2000 people, a humanitarian crisis caused by the bloody civil war disappeared.
The Myanmar Fire Department at Naipyidó stated that the woman was successfully rescued from the debris at dawn on Tuesday, 91 hours after burial when the building collapsed in the 7.7 earthquake that occurred at noon on Friday.
The earthquake center was near the second largest city in the country, Mandalay, and so far the military government has reported 2065 deaths, more than 3,900 injuries and 270 missing.
These numbers are expected to increase, but the earthquake affected a wide tape of the country, leaving many areas without electricity or communications over the phone or cellular, roads and damaged bridges, which makes it difficult to assess the total size of destruction.
Most of the reports came so far from Mandalay and Naipyidó.
The World Health Organization said that, in general, it is known that more than 10,000 buildings have collapsed or seriously damaged in the center and northwest of Myanmar.
The earthquake also shook the neighbor Thailand and dropped a skyscraper under construction, and was buried by many workers.
On Monday, two bodies of the rubble were recovered, but dozens were still missing. In total, 20 people died and 34 wounded in Bangkok, mainly on the construction site.
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