He held five days under the rubble. A man was rescued alive, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in Burma, the firefighters announced, after the earthquake on Friday who killed at least 2,700 people in the country.
The young man in his twenties was released by a team of Burmese and Turkish rescuers in a ruined hotel in the capital Naytyidaw around 12:30 am (6 p.m. GMT on Tuesday), the fire and rescue services and the junta in power said.
The chances of finding living people are being day of day, but some miracles have occurred. Tuesday morning, it was a woman aged about sixty who was found alive, after being trapped in the rubble for almost 91 hours.
A new assessment of the junta on Tuesday reported 2,719 victims but the experts anticipate thousands of additional dead, because the sagaing flaw, behind the earthquake, crosses among the most populous regions of the country, with cities like Naycyidaw and Mandalay, the second in the country.
Minute of silence
More than a thousand foreign rescuers arrived in Burma as part of international mobilization to support local under-equipped services in the face of such a crisis. The rescue operations made it possible to extract living from the rubble about 650 people, according to a media from the junta. On the outskirts of Mandalay, a crematorium has received hundreds of bodies, and many others are expected as the victims are extracted from the rubble.
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday the death of two of its nationals, and three Chinese were also killed in the earthquake, reported the news agency China Nouvelle. Some 500 Muslims also died in mosques in the midst of Friday prayer, said the Global New Light of Myanmar, the newspaper affiliated to the generals.
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A period of national mourning was decreed on Monday by the junta in power, until April 6. On Tuesday, the country respected a minute of silence, the sirens sounded at 12:51 p.m. and 02 seconds (06:21 GMT) at a precise time when the amplitude shock 7.7 occurred on Friday, in order to mark the start of meditation.