Man pulled out alive after nearly 5 days in Myanmar earthquake rubble

Dramatic rescue in city of Naypyitaw by Turkish, local teams took more than 9 hours. Rescue crews in Myanmar pulled a 26-year-old man out alive from the rubble of the capital city hotel where he worked early on Wednesday, but most teams were finding only bodies five days after a massive earthquake hit the country.
After using an endoscopic camera to pinpoint Naing Lin Tun’s location in the rubble and confirm that he was alive, crews gingerly pulled the man through a hole jackhammered through a floor and loaded him on to a gurney nearly 108 hours after he was trapped in the hotel where he worked.
Shirtless and covered in dust, Naing Lin Tun appeared weak but conscious in a video released by the local fire department, as he was fitted with an IV drip and taken away. State-run MRTV reported that the rescue in the city of Naypyitaw was carried out by Turkish and local teams and took more than nine hours. The 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit midday on Friday, toppling thousands of buildings, collapsing bridges and buckling roads. The death toll rose to 3,003 on Wednesday, with more than 4,500 people injured, MRTV reported. Local reports suggest much higher figures.
The earthquake also rocked neighbouring Thailand, causing the collapse of a highrise building under construction in Bangkok. One body was removed from the rubble early on Wednesday, raising the death total in Bangkok to 22, with 34 injured, primarily at the construction site.
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Myanmar has been wracked by civil war between the ruling junta and rebel groups, and the earthquake is making a dire humanitarian crisis even worse, with more than three million people displaced from their homes and nearly 20 million in need even before it hit, according to the United Nations.
Myanmar’s ruling military declared a temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war on Wednesday to facilitate relief efforts. The announcement followed unilateral temporary ceasefires announced by armed resistance groups opposed to military rule.
On Tuesday, Tom Andrews, a monitor on rights in Myanmar commissioned by the UN-backed Human Rights Council, said on X that military attacks must stop to facilitate aid. “The focus in Myanmar must be on saving lives, not taking them,” he said.
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