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Sufferers evacuated from a Bangkok hospital have been taken to a close-by sports activities corridor the place hospital beds are lined up beneath basketball hoops and beside soccer targets.
Agence France-Presse reviews that when highly effective tremors from Myanmar’s earthquake and aftershock shook the Thai capital on Friday afternoon, sufferers at Rajavithi hospital had been rushed out of the constructing, some helped down stairs to close by makeshift shelters, together with to the hospital’s canteen and sports activities corridor.
One affected person, being handled for leukaemia, mentioned she was moved from her non-public room to a corridor within the hospital, strolling down a number of flights of stairs aided by nurses.
I must obtain my blood platelets quickly, and the hospital is at present checking which different hospital can present the remedy.
Some sufferers had been later moved again inside, whereas others had been transferred to completely different hospitals this morning, a hospital employees member mentioned.
On Saturday, round 30 sufferers had been within the corridor, the place hospital employees offered fundamental medical care together with blood transfusions.
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Management tower collapse at Naypyitaw airport kills six – report
The primary airport in Myanmar’s capital of Naypyitaw has been closed after Friday’s earthquake brought about its air site visitors management tower to break down, killing not less than six individuals, in line with a information report.
The unbiased outlet Myanmar Now additionally mentioned there have been reviews of in depth harm to aviation gear.
It reported a supply as saying that an air site visitors controller, three feminine assistants, the son of one of many assistants and a navy intelligence officer had been confirmed lifeless following the collapse of the tower.
The report couldn’t be independently verified.
It additionally cited an aviation officer at Yangon’s worldwide airport as saying the radar techniques on the airports in Naypyitaw and Mandalay had been not working.
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Up to date at 03.32 EDT
The south-east Asian bloc Asean says it is able to help quake restoration efforts in Myanmar and Thailand and recognises the pressing want for humanitarian help.
International ministers from the 10-nation Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations mentioned in a joint assertion on Saturday that the bloc “reaffirms its solidarity with the households and communities affected by the earthquake”.
In addition they mentioned Asean “will work intently to coordinate humanitarian help, help and facilitate reduction operations, and guarantee well timed and efficient humanitarian response”.
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China and Russia are the biggest suppliers of weapons to Myanmar’s navy and had been among the many first to step in with humanitarian support.
The Related Press reviews {that a} 37-member staff from the Chinese language province of Yunnan reached the town of Yangon early on Saturday with earthquake detectors, drones and different provides, China’s official Xinhua information company reported.
Russia’s emergencies ministry dispatched two planes carrying 120 rescuers and provides, in line with a report from the Russian state information company Tass.
India despatched a search and rescue staff and a medical staff in addition to provisions, whereas Malaysia’s international ministry mentioned the nation would ship 50 individuals on Sunday to assist establish and supply support to the worst-hit areas.
The UN allotted $5m to start out reduction efforts. President Donald Trump mentioned the US was going to assist with the response, however some consultants had been involved about this effort given his administration’s deep cuts in international help.
The Trump administration’s cuts to the US Company for Worldwide Growth have already pressured the UN and non-governmental organisations to chop many applications in Myanmar.
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Up to date at 02.59 EDT
In Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-biggest metropolis, Agence France-Presse journalists noticed a centuries-old Buddhist pagoda that had been lowered to rubble by the quake.
“It began shaking, then it began getting critical,” a soldier mentioned at a checkpoint on the highway outdoors the pagoda.
The monastery additionally collapsed. One monk died. Some individuals had been injured, we pulled out some individuals and took them to the hospital.
The top of the principle Buddha statue within the monastery fell off and was positioned on the platform at its toes.
“Everybody on the monastery dares stay awake inside, as we heard there may very well be one other earthquake,” the soldier mentioned. “I’ve by no means felt something like this in my life.
Guards at Mandalay airport turned away journalists, the AFP report mentioned.
“It has been closed since yesterday,” one mentioned. “The ceiling collapsed however nobody was harm.”
Harm to the airport would complicate reduction efforts in a rustic whose rescue providers and healthcare system have already been ravaged by 4 years of civil warfare sparked by the navy coup in 2021.
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Myanmar’s state-run MRTV is saying the demise toll from Friday’s 7.7-magnitude quake has climbed to 1,002.
It mentioned 2,376 individuals had been injured and 30 lacking, Reuters reviews.
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South Korea will present $2m to Myanmar in humanitarian support via worldwide organisations in preliminary help to assist the nation reply to Friday’s earthquake, Reuters quotes its international ministry as saying on Saturday.
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In Bangkok, the place a skyscraper beneath building got here crashing down close to the favored Chatuchak market, extra heavy gear was introduced in on Saturday to maneuver the tons of rubble however hope was fading amongst family and friends members of the lacking that they are going to be discovered alive, the Related Press reviews.
“I used to be praying that that they’d survived however once I received right here and noticed the damage – the place might they be? Wherein nook? Are they nonetheless alive?” mentioned 45-year-old Naruemol Thonglek, sobbing as she awaited information about her associate, who’s from Myanmar, and 5 associates who labored on the web site.
I’m nonetheless praying that every one six are alive.
I can’t settle for this. Once I see this I can’t settle for this. A detailed pal of mine is in there, too.
Waenphet Panta mentioned she hadn’t heard from her daughter Kanlayanee since a cellphone name about an hour earlier than the quake. A pal informed her Kanlayanee had been working excessive on the constructing on Friday.
“I’m praying my daughter is secure, that she has survived and that she’s on the hospital,” she mentioned as Kanlayanee’s father sat beside her.
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Up to date at 02.02 EDT
Quake toll passes 1,000 – report
The Myanmar quake toll has topped 1,000, Agence France-Presse is reporting, citing the nation’s navy junta.
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Up to date at 01.34 EDT
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Hi there and welcome to our dwell protection of the earthquake that devastated Myanmar and brought about the lethal collapse of a high-rise constructing in Bangkok on Friday.
The Myanmar junta on Saturday mentioned nearly 700 individuals had died within the quake. The nation’s second largest metropolis, Mandalay, is believed to have been particularly onerous hit, with photos exhibiting widespread destruction.
Min Aung Hlaing, the chief of Myanmar’s junta, mentioned on Friday he anticipated the demise toll to rise and urged “any nation, any organisation” to assist with reduction efforts – a uncommon request from the remoted navy authorities, which has beforehand shunned international help even after main pure disasters.
The junta mentioned blood was in excessive demand within the worst-affected areas as considerations grew about how rescuers would even attain some elements of a rustic already enduring a widespread humanitarian disaster.
In neighbouring Thailand, search and rescue efforts continued for as much as 101 individuals reported lacking from building websites in Bangkok, together with the high-rise.
Authorities on Saturday mentioned six individuals had been confirmed lifeless and 22 injured, revising down the demise toll of 10 from the day prior to this, saying a number of critically injured individuals had been mistakenly reported lifeless.
Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt mentioned extra individuals had been believed to be alive within the wreckage as search efforts continued on Saturday morning.
We’ll deliver you extra updates as we now have them.
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