Dramatic Pictures Emerge From Earthquake In Thailand & Myanmar As Hundreds Feared Dead

Max Goldbart

The eyes of the world’s quality media are trained connected Thailand and Myanmar, wherever a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake has near hundreds feared dead.

The United States Geological survey reported that the earthquake struck astir 4 hours agone astatine a uncommon magnitude that is described arsenic “major” with the imaginable for “serious damage.”

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News networks person since rushed to the country and pictures and videos being reported by the media person acceptable retired the standard of the destruction, arsenic 24/7 quality channels rapidly pivot their coverage.

Reporting successful extent from Myanmar has been hard since a subject junta seized powerfulness successful 2021 but the BBC is reporting that hundreds are feared dormant successful Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city.

Dramatic photos of the harm amusement hotels and ample buildings successful Mandalay successful a crumpled heap, coming arsenic a authorities of exigency is declared successful six regions of Myanmar including Mandalay. The epicenter struck adjacent Manadalay and a video posted connected X and verified by the BBC shows a span collapsing adjacent to a river. The Red Cross has said that electricity and web lines are down in the area, meaning it’s hard to measure the afloat damage.

In Thailand’s superior Bangkok, 70 operation workers are reported to beryllium missing astatine the tract of a collapsed building. In a Facebook post, the National Institute for Emergency Medicine successful Thailand said astir 320 workers were connected the tract astatine the clip of the illness and 20 are trapped successful the assistance shafts.

Meanwhile, videos person been doing the rounds of h2o cascading from the rooftop excavation of an intercontinental edifice successful Bangkok, 1 of which tin beryllium seen below.

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