Bangkok (AP) – Strong earthquake Myanmar shook On Friday, it caused extensive damage across a wide range of one of the poorest countries in the world and pushed officials to warn that the first death number – above 140 – was likely to grow in the coming days. In the neighboring Thailand, at least six in Bangkok died, where a tall tall collapsed under construction.
The full range of death, injury and destruction was not immediately clear – Especially in MyanmarAnd it is InvolvedAnd where the information is tightly controlled.
Rescue workers take an injured man trapped under Friday, March 28, 2025, in Naybito, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine OO)
“The number of deaths and injuries is expected to rise,” the head of the military government in Myanmar, Senior General Min Ong Helling He announced on television that at least 144 people were killed and that 730 others were injured in his country.
In Thailand, the authorities in Bangkok said that six people were killed, 22 years old and 101 missing from three construction sites, including height. They reviewed the death toll on Saturday morning from 10 in the previous day, saying that many people who were seriously injured were reported. The ruler of Bangkok Chadchartt Siteptont said he believed that more people alive in the debris with continued research efforts on Saturday morning.
the 7.7 earthquake size In the middle of the day, it was struck with a dirt center near Mandalay, Myanmar The second largest city. The final tremors were followed, one measuring 6.4 strong size.
A woman interacts as she watches the rescuers at the location of a high -rise building under construction.
Myanmar is in an active earthquake belt, although many of the breasts occur in populated areas, not the cities of such affected on Friday. The US Geological Survey, the US government science agency, estimated that the number of deaths could reach 1000.
In Mandalay, the earthquake was said to drop multiple buildings, including one of the largest monasteries in the city. Pictures from Naybyidawf capital showed rescue crews withdrawing victims from the rubble of multiple buildings used to accommodate civil service employees.
Rescue teams head to Myanmar
Myanmar government The blood said he was high in demand in the most affected areas. In a country the previous governments were sometimes slow to accept external aid, Main Ong Hinging said Myanmar is ready to accept help.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that a team of 37 members from the Chinese province of Yunnan arrived in the city of Yangon early on Saturday with earthquake detectors, drones and other supplies.
The Russian Emergency Ministry sent two planes carrying 120 rescuers and supplies, according to a report issued by the Russian government news agency Tass. India has sent a search and rescue team and a medical team as well as blankets, closed cloth, hygiene groups, sleeping bags, solar energy lamps, food packages, and kitchen groups, and the country’s foreign minister said on X.
The United Nations allocated $ 5 million to the start of relief efforts. President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States will help in responding, but some experts were concerned about this effort given the deep discounts of his administration in foreign assistance.
But amid pictures of the roads that are linked, the escalating and reports of a bridge of rivers and an explosion, there were concerns about how rescuers reached some areas in a country already carrying a humanitarian crisis.
“We are afraid that it will take weeks before we understand the full range of the destruction caused by this earthquake,” said Mohamed Ryles, Director of the International Salvation Committee in Myanmar.
A Buddhist monk is running near a damaged building in the Deir complex after an earthquake, on Friday, March 28, 2025 in Naybito, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine OO)
The collapse of the bridge and the monastery, and the dam explodes in Myanmar
The newspaper “Global New Leo of Myanmar” in Myanmar in the English language language said that five cities and towns witnessed a collapse in construction and two bridges, including one on a major highway between Mandalay and Yangon. A picture on the newspaper website showed a sign of a sign reading the “Emergency Department”, which the illustrative name was part of the Capital Hospital of 1000 beds.
Elsewhere, the video posted on the Internet showed monks a corridor on Mandalay Street, where they filmed their video of the MA Soe Yane Monastery before it suddenly fell to the ground. It was not immediately clear if anyone had harmed. The video also showed damage to the previous royal palace.
Christian Ed said that its partners and colleagues on the ground reported that the dam had exploded in the city, causing water levels in low areas.
Yangon residents, the country’s largest city, rushed from their homes when the earthquake struck. In NayPyitaw, some houses stood partially, while rescuers resurrected residues of debris. A man who tilted a stretch with wheels, while another man raised him in the heat.
“This catastrophe will leave people destroyed,” said Julie Megan, who supervises the work of Christianity in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
“Even before this sudden earthquake, we know that conflict and displacement have left countless people in real need,” said Mehigan.
The Military in Myanmar seized power from the elected government in Aung San Suu Ki in February 2021, and is now involved in a bloody civil war with a long -term firm militia and a recently formed democracy.
Government forces have lost control of many Myanmar, and many incredibly dangerous places or impossible for relief groups to reach them. More than 3 million people were descended due to the fighting and about 20 million in need, according to the United Nations.
Bangkok building collapsed in a cloud of dust
In Thailand, a 33 -storey building collapsed under construction in a cloud of dust near the famous Catuchak market in Bangkok, and the spectators can be seen screaming and running in a video posted on social media. The vehicles stopped on a highway.
Sirens Translated in the center of the Thai capital in the city center, where the rescuers were carried out to the debris. Above them, grated steel and broken concrete blocks rose, some of which are stacked like pancakes, in a tall pile. The injured people were transferred to Gurneys, and hospital beds were heading abroad on the sidewalk.
“It is a great tragedy,” said Prime Minister, Syria, Gangurring, after watching the site.
Seismic is rarely feeling in the urban Bangkok area, home to more than 17 million people, many of whom live in high apartments.
Voranoot Thirawat, a lawyer working in the center of Bangkok, said she first realized that there was something wrong when she saw a light that swings back and forth. Then the building was heard, and she and her colleagues fled 12 trips of the stairs.
“In my life, there was no earthquake like this in Bangkok,” she said.
Fraser Morton, a tourist from Scotland, was in one of the numerous shopping centers in Bangkok when he hit the earthquake.
“Suddenly, the entire building began to move. Immediately, there was screaming and a lot of panic,” he said. He said that some people escaped the moving stairs up.
Nearly, Paul Vincent, a tourist visiting from England, recalled seeing a tall building that swings, and the water falls from the surface pool and people crying in the streets.
The American Geological Survey and the GFZ Center in Germany for Earth Sciences said the earthquake was 10 km (6.2 miles), according to initial reports. Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage.
The injuries were reported in China
To the northeast, the earthquake was perceived in the provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan Chinese and caused damage and injuries in the city of Ruwaili on the border with Myanmar, according to Chinese media reports.
A resident of the newspaper “Al -Raqa”, a media company online, said that the shaking in Mangshi, a Chinese city about 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Rolly, was so strong that people were unable to stand.
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Adam, partner, Haruka Naga, Jerry Harmer, Grant Beck and Benin Wang in Bangkok, Jimmy Keteen in Geneva, Ken Morestogo in Beijing and Edith M. Leader and Franus Emiri at the United Nations and Jennifer Bilz in New York.