Relief groups say that the survivors of the Myanmar earthquake without food and shelter

The relief groups in the areas most affected in Myanmar said that there is an urgent need for shelter, food and water after an earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, but said that the country’s civil war could prevent help in reaching the needy.

The Military leader in Myanmar Min Ang Hinging said in a televised speech on Tuesday that the death toll had reached 2719, and is expected to rise to more than 3000. 4,521 people have been injured, and 441 missing people.

The 7.7 -sized earthquake, which was around the lunch time on Friday, was the strongest that hit a country in Southeast Asia for more than a century, as it overthrew the old Bagoda and modern buildings alike.

In the Mandalay area of ​​Myanmar, 50 children and teachers were killed when pre -school collapsed, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

“In the most affected areas … societies are struggling to meet their basic needs, such as access to clean water and sanitation, while emergency teams are tirelessly working to locate survivors and provide life -saving assistance,” the United Nations said in a report.

The International Salvation Committee said that shelter, food, water and medical assistance was required in places like Mandalay, near the earthquake center.

“After they lived through the horror of the earthquake, people are now afraid of final tremors and sleep abroad on the roads or in open fields,” said one of the IRC workers in Mandalay in a report.

The United States stumbled, as the former says

The US State Department said on Monday that the American Development Agency’s International Development Team was heading to Myanmar to help identify the most urgent needs in the country, but a former US Agency for International Development said that the total response of the Donald Trump administration had stumbled through huge money discounts, contractor terms and plans to launch almost all employees.

“The response has been affected by” a lot of internal confusion about the ability to respond and prepare for the response, “said Sarah Charles, who headed the Agency’s Humanitarian Office until February 2024.

Speaking in a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Tami Bruce rejected the criticism that financing and lowering employees impeded the US International Development Agency’s response and said that Washington was working with Myanmar partners to obtain assistance to affected people.

Trump, through an initiative led by billionaire advisor Ilon Musk, in February, began the closing of the United States Agency for International Development and integrating its operations into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thousands of employees were placed on an administrative leave, and hundreds of contractors were launched and more than 5,000 programs were completed, which resulted in disrupting the international humanitarian aid efforts on which millions depend.

On Friday, on the day the earthquake was struck by Myanmar and Thailand, the administration told Congress that it was launching almost all members of the United States Agency for International Development and closed its foreign tasks.

Charles said that the operations that lead to rapid responses to disasters at the United States Agency for International Development “are no longer automatic”, and “the process of obtaining approval to do things, the publication of persons, is negotiated in the actual time.”

According to human rights, Myanmar, an aid group, represents the United States A quarter of aid to Myanmar Before Trump’s opening, American assistance was considered very important for the Rohingya refugees who fled the country as they screaming at it The camps in Thailand and Bangladesh.

Military rule is a complex worker

The civil war in Myanmar, where the Military Council seized power in a coup in 2021, made complicated efforts to reach the injured and made homeless by the largest earthquake in Southeast Asia in a century.

Amnesty International said the military council needs to allow help to reach areas of the country, not under its control. The rebel groups say that the military council made air strikes after the earthquake.

“The Myanmar army has a long -term exercise in denying aid to the areas resisting activities,” said Joe Freeman, a researcher at Myanmar, pardon.

“You should immediately allow uncomfortable access to all humanitarian organizations and remove administrative barriers that delay needs evaluation.”

Intensive control over communication networks and damage to the roads, bridges and other infrastructure caused by earthquakes is one of the challenges facing relief workers.

Thai officials said that the meeting of regional leaders in Bangkok later this week will go ahead as planned, although the military council leader may bring him through communications.

Before the earthquake hit, the sources said that the president of JUNTA was expected to make a rare foreign trip to attend the summit in Bangkok from April 3 to 4.

Fad hopes in the collapsed Thai building

In the neighboring Thailand, the rescuers were still wandering in the ruins of an incomplete skyscraper that collapsed for any signs of life, but they realized that with the passage of four days since an earthquake, the chances of finding the survivors long.

“There are about 70 bodies under it … and we hope that some miracles or two are still alive,” the volunteer rescue leader Bin Bonlueret said at the building site.

The Vice Governor of Bangkok Tafida Camovg said that six human figures were discovered by light scanners, but there was no vital movement or signs. She said that local and international experts were now working on how to get them safe.

Search and rescue efforts continued on the site, as the family and friends said they were afraid of the worst.

“The rescue teams are doing their best. I can see it,” said 19 -year -old Artithap Lalod, who was waiting for his brother’s news.

“However, it turns out, so it should be. We just have to accept that things will be the same,” he said.

Thirteen deaths were confirmed on the construction site, with 74 people who are still missing. The number of national deaths in Thailand stands from the earthquake in 20.