The smell of death “fills the air” near the earthquake center in Myanmar Seismic news

All, Miname – “Now with every storm of wind, the smell of air bodies fills.” The devastating earthquake is 7.7 earthquake This hit Myanmar on Friday.

“At this stage, more bodies are more recovered than the survivors,” said Najeh to Al -Jazeera on Sunday, explaining how Rescue workers From the nearby Mandlaay, he just arrived at the epic earlier in the day, after the Yadanabon Bridge, which extended the Euwadi River, was reopened.

The near AVA bridge, which was built about 90 years ago during the British colonial rule, was among the many structures that must be collapsed when the earthquake reached more than 48 hours ago, killing at least 1700 people and wounding more than 3400 – preliminary Victim losses are certain to rise as the full range of catastrophe has become known in the coming hours and days.

“The rescue teams from Mandalay were unable to reach us immediately because the bridge of collapsing. For this reason they only arrived today,” said Thaar Nag, looking for the ruins of the city and telling us how he has now lost hope to find his son alive.

He said that many in the city have Love their loved ones.

Nearly 90 bodies have been recovered so far – that THAR NGE – compared to 36 people who were rescued from their consistent homes, companies and many Buddhist temples in the region.

He said: “Many people, as well as the monks and nuns in the epic, were trapped under the buildings, including monasteries and nuns.”

“The focus is from saving life to recovering and burying the dead.”

The smell of decomposing bodies everywhere in the epic.

In Mandalay, the second largest city in the country located 22 km (14 miles) in the east, a shortage of specialized equipment has left rescue workers and relatives of people who were digging with their naked hands to find survivors.

The conditions are harsh.

Along with the collapsed roads, the full blocks of buildings are either damaged or destroyed, and the energy cut for most Mandalay and the epic, and both cities were affected by temperatures of up to 39 ° C (102 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday.

Earlier, Ko Lin Maw could only do, but waited for help in his logical home in Mandalay.

“My mother and my son are still trapped under the wreckage,” he told Al -Jazeera.

Ko Lin Mao said that even if he could get a signal on his mobile phone to order help, the few rescue teams in Mandalay give priority to larger sites of disasters where many people believed.

He said: “It is clear that the number of rescue workers is not sufficient to save the victims,” ​​meaning that 48 hours have passed since the earthquake was struck and that there were not enough emergency workers or aid supplies to the city.

The Myanmar Fire Administration worker has arrived in Mandalay on Sunday morning from the country’s commercial capital, Yangon, which is 627 km (390 miles) to the south.

With contacts in the aftermath of the earthquake, they hindered hard, leaving the services of the mobile phone barely online, tell HTET WAI how his team relied on the information posted on Facebook to determine where they help.

“This morning, as soon as we arrived, we went to a site we found online,” said htet wai.

He said that the first attempt to save her ended in the matter of restoring a body.

HTET WAI said that he and his colleagues will remain optimistic, although the situation is unwanted.

“With this heat, I am afraid that we will find more bodies than survivors. But we will do our best to save the largest possible lives,” he said to Al -Jazeera.

He said that, along with more skilled rescue workers and heavy equipment to move the rubble, there was an urgent need for body bags.

Weather forecast expects that this central part of Myanmar may see that day temperatures reach 40 degrees Celsius (104f) and above this week, HTET WAI said that the bodies of those who died and are still besieged under the buildings quickly.

He said: “The body that we found was already degraded. It is a trauma.”

“This goes beyond what we can deal with alone,” he added.