Rescue efforts of the Mortal Earthquake of Myanmar ends while the death toll hits 3,600

Bangkok (AP) – Long efforts to find myanmar survivors Soak devastating of March 28 finished on Monday because the rescue efforts were supplanted by the increase in the emergency and recovery activity. The number of deaths exceeded 3,600 and was still climbed.

A situation report published Monday evening by the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs Coordination, or OCHA, said that more than 17.2 million people lived in affected areas and need a diet, drinking water, health care, cash aid and emergency shelter.

In the Capital, naytyitawPeople have cleaned the debris and collected the wood in their damaged houses in the rain sprinkled, and the soldiers removed wrecks in certain Buddhist monasteries.

The Myanmar fire services department said on Monday that the rescue teams had recovered 10 bodies from the rubble from a collapsed building in Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar.

He said international rescuers From Singapore, Malaysia and India returned to their country after their work to find survivors was considered to be completed. The number of rescue teams operating in the residential areas of Naycyitaw has continued to decrease.

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck a large strip in the country, causing significant damage to six regions and states. The earthquake has left many electricity -free areas, telephone or cellular connections and damaged roads and bridges, which makes the full expanse of devastation difficult to assess.

Major-General Zaw Min Tun, military government spokesperson, said late Monday that the earthquake toll reached 3,600, with 5,017 injured and 160 missing. He said research and rescue operations involved 1,738 staff members of 20 countries and had helped find and extract 653 survivors.

He also said that the earthquake had been officially named “the Big Mandalay earthquake” to ensure the consistency of future documentation and reference. Important land tremors have also received official names.

“Entire communities have been upset, forcing people to look for shelter in wealth conditions, to disrupt the markets, to worsen psychosocial distress and to provide essential services – including running water, sanitation and health – on the verge of collapse,” said the OCHA report.

“People who left homelessness by earthquakes are exposed to extreme heat during the warmest and driest month in the country, and the rains have already started in Mandalay-a constituting an additional threat for those who are outdoors,” he noted.

The Military Government of Myanmar and its opponents on the battlefield, on the other hand, have exchanged charges for alleged violations of Declarations of ceasefire Everyone had declared to lighten the help of the earthquakes.

Continuous fighting reports

Myanmar was warning the control of the army in 2021, the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which led to peaceful demonstrations on a national scale which transformed into armed resistance and which is now equivalent to civil war.

Although the military government and its armed adversaries have declared unilateral ceils for a temporary period, continuous fighting reports are widespread, the army receiving the most criticisms for the continuation of air bombardments, according to the independent media of Myanmar and the eye.

The independent confirmation of the fighting is difficult due to the distance from the areas in which a large part of it takes place and the restrictions to journalists.

The Three BrotherHOOD Alliance, a trio of powerful ethnic minority armies, said a unilateral temporary cease-fire on April 1, following a previous statement from the government of the national opposition unity, or NUG.

The NUG, which leads the pro-democracy resistance, said its armed wing, the defense forces of the people, would cease offensive actions for two weeks.

On Wednesday, the army announced a similar unilateral ceasefire, just like another group of ethnic minorities among its enemies, the Kachin Independence organization.

All parties have reserved the right to act in self -defense.

The national liberation army of Ta’ang, or TNLA, and the Arakan army, both members of the Three Brotherhood Alliance, accused the army of continuing the attacks separately.

Declaring his ceasefire

The government of national shadow unit accused the military of having carried out 63 air strikes and artillery attacks since the earthquake, leading to the death of 68 civilians, including a child and 15 women.

However, the military spokesman, Zaw Min Tun, told journalists in an audio message in an audio message on Saturday that the groups of the Three Brotherhood Alliance and the Kachin independence army, as well as the Karen National Union in south-eastern Myanmar and pro-democracy forces in the Central Magway region and other groups violated the Ceasefires by attacking the army.

“We are making help and assistance efforts to people affected by the earthquake. I say that to raise awareness of each of the ceasefire violations at a time like this,” said Zaw Min Tun.

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The writer Associated Press Edith Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.