{"id":16205,"date":"2025-03-29T18:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/myanmar-earthquake-toll-surpasses-1600-dead-amid-search-for-survivors\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T18:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:36:36","slug":"myanmar-earthquake-toll-surpasses-1600-dead-amid-search-for-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/myanmar-earthquake-toll-surpasses-1600-dead-amid-search-for-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The official death toll of the earthquake that shattered central Myanmar surpassed 1,600 people, the country\u2019s military leaders said on Saturday, as desperate rescue workers raced to find survivors and began grappling with a monumental disaster in a nation already racked by civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The powerful earthquake struck on Friday near Mandalay, the country\u2019s second-largest city, and volunteer emergency workers there combed through the ruins of apartments, monasteries and mosques in search of anyone left alive. The quake toppled power lines and caused roads to buckle. Workers lacked equipment like excavators and toiled as the repressive military authorities kept a watchful eye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere are at least a hundred people still trapped inside,\u201d said Thaw Zin, a volunteer who was sitting in front of a destroyed condominium. \u201cWe are trying our best with what we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The death toll is expected to rise steeply, although Myanmar\u2019s military junta, which overthrew an elected government in 2021, has sought to restrict what information leaves the country. Modeling by the United States Geological Survey suggested the number of deaths will likely <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us7000pn9s\/pager\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">surpass 10,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The earthquake has raised questions about whether Myanmar\u2019s military rulers <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/03\/29\/world\/earthquake-myanmar-thailand#myanmar-quake-junta\" title=\"\">can manage to stay in power<\/a>, having already lost ground to rebels amid a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/04\/20\/world\/asia\/myanmar-civil-war.html\" title=\"\">bloody civil war<\/a> that has left nearly 20 million of the country\u2019s roughly 54 million people without enough food or shelter even before the quake, according to U.N. officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even after the disaster struck, Myanmar military jets dropped bombs on Friday evening on a rebel-held village, Naung Lin, in northern Shan State. \u201cI just can\u2019t believe they did airstrikes at the same time as the earthquake,\u201d said Lway Yal Oo, a Naung Lin resident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anger against the military was rising in the wake of the disaster on Saturday. Mr. Thaw Zin, the volunteer in Mandalay, said that soldiers and police officers had turned up at disaster sites but did nothing to help. \u201cThey are here hanging around with their guns,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t need guns, we need helping hands and kind hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the junta has also acknowledged the enormous extent of the catastrophe, which caused the collapse of a building 600 miles away in Bangkok and sent shock waves around Southeast Asia. The military government declared a state of emergency in six regions of Myanmar, including rebel-controlled areas where millions of displaced people live with scarce internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The army\u2019s leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, surveyed disaster sites on Friday and visited a makeshift hospital in Naypyitaw, about 170 miles south of Mandalay, state media showed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The junta, although isolated and under sanctions from much of the world, also made an extraordinary appeal for help \u2014 a call that some began to answer despite the dizzying logistical <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/world\/asia\/myanmar-earthquake-aid.html?smid=url-share\" title=\"\">obstacles<\/a> in getting that aid to survivors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Aid workers will have to traverse collapsed roads and devastated regions, in a country <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/31\/world\/asia\/myanmar-drugs-crime.html\" title=\"\">divided by full-blown civil war and competing warlords<\/a>, arms dealers, human traffickers and drug syndicates. There are risks that the military could interfere in the delivery of aid, experts said, and even transferring funds into Myanmar are complicated by the rules involving sanctions and the movement of money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">India, which shares a long border with Myanmar, sent 15 tons of aid and more than 100 medical specialists, its foreign minister said, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had spoken to the junta\u2019s chief, offering help to \u201ca close friend and neighbor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">China, which also borders Myanmar and which has supplied the junta weapons even as evidence grew of its military atrocities, flew dozens of search and rescue workers into the country on Saturday. Beijing also planned to send nearly $14 million in aid, including tents, first aid kits and drinking water, according to Chinese state media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">South Korea promised $2 million in aid, shipped through international humanitarian agencies, and Malaysia\u2019s government said it would send two teams of 50 people to support relief work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But it remained far from clear what kind of response some of the world\u2019s wealthiest nations would provide, or how. Although President Trump said the United States would \u201cbe helping,\u201d his administration has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/usaid-trump-doge-cuts.html\" title=\"\">moved to all but eliminate<\/a> the main U.S. agency for distributing aid, and the United States, Britain and other countries have imposed heavy sanctions on the junta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even for countries friendlier to Myanmar\u2019s military rulers, there are major hurdles. The early deliveries of help sent by India and China went to Myanmar\u2019s biggest city, Yangon. They would have to drive hundreds of miles north to reach Mandalay and other areas most affected by the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the disaster area, where roads are damaged and destroyed and power is largely gone, people tried to stock up on fuel and food. Dozens of people from other cities in Myanmar also packed their cars and vans with supplies and headed into Mandalay, hoping to pitch in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ambulances jammed Mandalay\u2019s streets on Saturday, heading to a hospital two hours away that had more room. Among the mounds of brick, cement and metal where buildings had stood two days earlier, some people began to lose hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYesterday we found some survivors, but today the chances are much lower,\u201d said Ko Thien Win, who had rushed to the site of a destroyed apartment building in Mandalay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At hospitals, many others were left in a kind of purgatory, dealing with their own injuries and fearing for the fate of their loved ones. Tay Zar Lin had been picking mangoes when the ground started shaking on Friday and he fell, breaking his leg. He reached a hospital, where he could not see a doctor until Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He then discovered that his wife was still trapped inside the tailor shop where she worked, he said. \u201cI pray that yesterday morning wasn\u2019t the last time I saw her,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The uncertainty extended far outside Myanmar, into the diaspora of people who have migrated out of the country in past decades. Richard Nee, one of tens of thousands now living in Taiwan, said he and other former residents of Mandalay were waiting for word from friends and family. He knew the wife of one friend had died, apparently in a building collapse, but that sporadic communication had made it hard to learn more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An engineer, he said many buildings in Myanmar, which lies on one of the world\u2019s most active seismic zones, had been built to endure earthquakes. \u201cMany buildings were strong enough for maybe a magnitude 6 earthquake,\u201d he said. \u201cBut anything above magnitude 6, like this time, was too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And many survivors of the earthquake already know their loved ones\u2019 fates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When the earthquake struck and her apartment in Mandalay began to heave, Su Wai Lin, who is six months pregnant, managed to escape the building with her husband and mother-in-law. But she said her husband ran back inside to save their 90-year-old neighbor. Then the building collapsed, killing them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI can\u2019t put into words the pain I feel,\u201d she said, weeping as she spoke at a hospital. \u201cMy child will be born without a father.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">David Pierson<!-- --> contributed reporting from Hong Kong, <!-- -->Mujib Mashal<!-- --> from New Delhi, <!-- -->Choe Sang-Hun<!-- --> and <!-- -->Shawn Paik<!-- --> from Seoul, <!-- -->Chris Buckley<!-- --> from Taiwan, <!-- -->Jenny Gross<!-- --> from London and <!-- -->Hannah Beech<!-- --> from Boston.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async 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