The number of victims of the Myanmar earthquake to more than a thousand new dead

The official Myanmar media announced on Friday the increase in the number of victims of the earthquake, which struck the country and Thailand neighboring to 1002 people and 2,376 injured.

The Myanmar government has confirmed its need for research and rescue teams to help it cope with the effects of the earthquake.

International countries and organizations have expressed their desire to help countries affected by earthquakes that have struck vast regions of Southeast Asia.

Malaysia was quick to send a research and rescue team to Myanmar, while the World Health Organization said it was sending help and teams specializing in natural disasters.

In the Thai capital, Bangkok, the rescue teams continue to search for survivors in the area affected by the city center, and the construction workers were found besieged under the rubble of a 33-story collapsed tower.

Thai authorities have announced that nine people died and that they were considered to be missing 101 in Bangkok, most workers trapped under the ruins of the collapsed tower.

Reuters cited a declaration by the US Geological Survey saying that expectations can only be killed in Myanmar following the earthquake.

Destructive

The earthquake of 7.7 hikes northwest of the city of Singing, in the center of Myanmar, Friday afternoon, at a superficial depth, and a few minutes later, a 6.4-degree tremor was struck by the same area.

The destruction caused by the earthquake prompted the military council to power in Myanmar – which has lost large areas of interest in armed groups – to issue a rare attraction of this type to obtain international humanitarian aid, while the emergency has declared in 6 regions of the country.

It should be noted that Myanmar is generally witness to earthquakes because it struck 6 earthquakes with a force of 7 degrees or more between 1930 and 1956 near the wise flaw, which passes to the center of the country and extends from north to south, according to the American Geological Survey.

In 2016, an earthquake of 6.8 magnifications – struck the old capital, Baghan, in the center of the country – killed 3 people and the collapse of the towers and walls of a temple in the tourist destination.