The earthquake earthquake, Myanmar and Thailand; It fears the high number of vertebrae as the buildings are leaking

A strong earthquake in central Myanmar struck on Friday, wandering the open roads, cleansing the religious monuments dating back to a century and destroying multi -storey buildings, shook a large area of ​​Southeast Asia and a severe blow to a country that was dismantled by the Civil War was shook.

Although the death toll is still unclear, expert estimates have warned that they may be unusual, given the thick population and weak structures near the earthquake center, outside Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar. The modeling of the United States’s geological survey is possible that the number of deaths is likely to be that Over 10,000And that there is a strong possibility of the workshops much higher.

A preliminary number of the Military government in Myanmar said at least 144 people were killed and 732 were injured in only three cities – but that did not include Mandalay.

The earthquake, which was measured by USGS 7.7, was so strong that it settled a 33 -storey building that was under construction more than 600 miles in Bangkok, in neighboring Thailand. At least eight people there were confirmed, and dozens were missing, according to the authorities. They were all supposed to be members of the 320 workers ’workers who were putting the new building of the Thai government.

The earthquake, which was struck around 12:50 pm local time, was only the third of its size in the region in the last century, and Usgs analysis The earthquake center is only 10 miles from the heart of Mandalay, a city of about 1.5 million people. The bounce tremor was recorded in size 6.7 after about 11 minutes, which is the first of several large tremors that followed the first.

Poetry of shaking far away like Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand and Southern ChinaThe government media reported that an unspecified number of people had been injured in Ruwaili, near the Myanmar border. Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from Thailand Bangkok announced a “emergency area” and urged residents to evacuate long buildings in the event of links.

In Myanmar, with the rush of bleeding victims to hospitals by the ambulance, cars and motorcycles, a surgeon at Mandalay General Hospital said that many people had reached treatment to the point that the nurses have run out of cotton swabs and had no place to stand.

“More patients continue to arrive, but we do not have enough doctors and nurses,” said Dr. Kiao Zain. He said that due to the low phone lines, he was not sure whether his parents had survived.

He said, “But I can’t go home yet.” “I must save lives here first.”

Dozens of patients in the hospital – the main medical center in Mandalaay – fled the building when they shook and rose, and gathered together in a nearby car park.

Some patients were still connected to venous drops and oxygen tanks. Others were their heads and their weapons, and they lined up with stickers, groaning. Many were more dumped on cardboard, or directly on concrete in the temperature of 100 degrees.

Outside the hospital, Dow Ki Shwen, 45, who was bleeding, said her 3 -year -old daughter was killed when their house began to collapse during lunch. She said, “I tried to run on it, but before I could, the bricks fell on me too.”

Pictures and videos from Myanmar showed scenes of amazing destruction. The Ava Bridge, a giant metal extension, has partially collapsed in the Euwadi River. In Mandalay, the monks wearing a red Archdrich shouted in a shock as a multi -storey building fell in the new Master Monastery near the logical clock tower.

In a Buddhist monastery in Bindaya, about 70 miles from the earthquake center, women were shouting as a century -old golden dome called Stop, one of them was damaged there. Drilling rescue workers in other parts of the country through twisted piles of spinning iron and concrete, where the buildings were destroyed. Among the damaged places, NayPyidaw, the capital of the military government, was about 150 miles from Mandalay.

The disaster has multiplied the huge challenges facing military rulers in Myanmar, who toppled an elected government in 2021 and registered the country’s connection to the outside world. The military council has been steadily weakened since then, and the land was lost in front of the rebels in the middle of a The bloody civil war This has left nearly 20 million from about 54 million people in the country without enough food or shelter even before the earthquake, according to United Nations officials.

During previous disasters, such as Mocha Hurricane in 2023 and Nargis in 2008, Military rulers in Myanmar have restricted the flow of international aid to difficult areas dominated by their opponents.

But this time, the leaders of the Military Council immediately appealed to international assistance and declared a state of emergency in six regions of the country, news agencies, including Mandalay and Nepidowo.

“We need the international community to provide humanitarian aid,” said military spokesman, General Zu Min Ton. “We will cooperate with them to ensure the best care for the victims.”

The United Nations Secretary -General, Antonio Guterres, said the organization was mobilizing to help people in need. The United Nations has said it had allocated a first sum of $ 5 million from the emergency fund to help save life in Myanmar.

President Trump said that the United States will also provide assistance to Myanmar. “It is a real bad one, and we will help,” he said in the Oval Office. “We have already talked to the country.”

Relief organizations said it was difficult to assess the full range of damage in many parts of Myanmar because the electricity and communications lines had decreased. Moreover, Junta has been closed again and again online And cutting access to social media, and isolating the country.

It may make the campaign to access the Internet, which aims to strangle the opposition, it may be difficult to coordinate the delivery of aid.

The army has been suppressing most of the time since 1962; Even during the limited liberation periods, the armed forces remained a major political force.

Michael Martin, a colleague who is not residing at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the army can slow down the delivery of supplies, deny visas to relief workers or direct more assistance to nominal areas under its control, and shorten areas under control of the opposition.

Mr. Martin said it is unclear to what extent will the United States help, given the Trump administration’s hostility to external aid programs and the main deception of the United States Agency for International Development.

Even before the earthquake, the healthcare system in Myanmar was pushed to its borders. The Military Council has taken the coordination of doctors and nurses, who were at the forefront of the regime’s civil disobedience movement. Myanmar is considered One of the most dangerous places in the world To be a health worker, according to the New York for Human Rights.

With the support of military and financial support from China, India, Russia and Thailand, JUNTA controls about 20 percent of Myanmar, especially urban areas. Its leader, chief of General Min Aung Hang, was accused of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

The army has persecuted the ethnic minorities, especially the Rohingya Muslims, who endured a The incendiary campaign From intentional burning, mass rape and killing that the United States He called the genocide.

In Bangkok, rescue workers were at night after the 33 -storey building collapsed. The video of the collapse showed construction workers with panic who runs for safety and the streets in the streets scrambling the cover, as the thick cloud of dust has quickly enveloped the scene.

About 70 people were transferred to local hospitals and two people were rescued. Hours later, rescue workers and dogs looked for the survivors amid fears that dozens of people were buried in collapse.

In Mandalay, with the deepening of the night, the terrified residents pulled the mattresses and mosquitoes on the streets to sleep. Others plan to spend the night in their cars. Many were very afraid to return to their homes.

Myanmar is in one of the world Most of the active areas in the seismic point of viewWhere the European and Indian classes of the Earth crust grind each other. In 2011, a Size 6.8 earthquake In East Myanmar, more than 70 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed.

Sui Lee Wei and Richard C I mentioned from Bangkok, John Yun From Seoul and Michael Levinson From New York. Reports previously contributed Mukitita Sohartonoand Pablo Roblesand Agnes Changand Jenny Grossand Lara Gakesand Adam Satarianand Paul Mozurand Keith Bradcher and Vivian Wang.