Myanmar earthquake survivors describe horror

Burmese City Mandalay became a “tragedy scene”, a survivor of an earthquake of 7.7 earthquakes that hit Myanmar’s center on Friday.

“It’s like a ruined city. Some are still trapped under the debris,” she said. “It was too severe. I have never been so bad that I have been shaking.”

“There are too many injured people in the general hospital,” he added.

The other woman reveals how you can hear the voices of people trapped in a collapsed hotel.

“I can cry and listen to my friends because the children are still in the building, because the teacher is a teacher.

“This earthquake is completely disaster.” “We need help.”

According to the official person, at least 144 people were killed in Myanmar and more than 700 were injured.

But it is not easy to build a clear picture of what happens in Southeast Asian countries.

The approach has been limited since 2021, when the army took power after the coup. Due to the lack of freedom of the media, foreign journalists cannot officially enter the country.

Many people who talked with the BBC and other institutions did not present their name for security reasons.

A resident who lives in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, said that the news day program of the BBC World Service lasted for about four minutes, saying that Shakes was “very intense.”

The man, who wanted to maintain anonymity for security reasons, described the violent shaking as a building that was awakened by a nap.

“It lasted for about 3-4 minutes,” he said. “I received a message from a friend and realized that not only Yangon but also many places in the country.”

The trembling was so strong that it felt beyond Myanmar’s border in China and Thailand.

In Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar, social media images showed collapsed buildings, including part of a historical royal palace.

The 90 -year -old legs collapsed, and the area of ​​the main highway that connects the bang to the city was torn.

Myanmar officials declared “mass casualties” at the capital’s NAY PYI TAW General Hospital. If the patient is lying in external gurneys, it is an intravenous injection hanging on a temporary transformation.

Military JUNTA also declared an emergency in six regions and made a rare appeal to international support.

“We want to send humanitarian aid as soon as possible as possible,” Junta’s Secretary of State said.

Shintong Sanar, a student from Myanmar at Sheffield University, told the BBC that he was awake with his mother’s passionate call. The panic filled his mother’s voice, saying that the building had fallen around her.

“After a while, my aunt went in.

None of her family was injured, but “destruction is overwhelming.”

“When I was on Friday, I found out that many people were inside the mosque, and many people were injured and caused deaths.

“I can’t recognize the streets and buildings I grew up.”

Additional reports of James Kelly, Andrée Massiah, Bernadette McCague and Liz Roberts