Sunday 30/March/2025 – 03:53 AM
On Saturday, rescuers managed to recover a woman from under the rubble of a collapsed residential complex in Mandalay, according to AFP correspondents, 30 hours after the devastating earthquake that struck Burma.
The applause was called when the 30 -year -old rescuers were removed from the rubble of the Sky Villa residential complex, where she was carefully pulled and placed on a stretcher, to rush her husband Yi Ong to embrace her.
“In the beginning, I didn’t think she would be alive,” Yi Aung told AFP as he was waiting for his wife to get out of the rubble.
The father added to two children: I am very happy because I heard good news.
While the ambulance was heading to the hospital, Yi Aung was seen through its window holding the hand of his wife.
A Red Cross official told AFP earlier that more than 90 people were held under the rubble of the residential complex.
And a 7.7 -wheted earthquake hit Mandalay early Friday afternoon, followed by a 6.7 -degree tremor.
The authorities reported on Saturday that the earthquake had killed 1644 people and wounded 3408, most of them in Mandalay, the second largest city in Burma. It is still difficult to assess the scale of the disaster, especially in light of the interruption of communications.
