Commuters drive past a building that collapsed, in the aftermath of a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar. Photo: Reuters
Commuters drive past a building that collapsed, in the aftermath of a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar. Photo: Reuters
Sarah Newey and Nandi Theint
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From beneath a pile of wrangled metal and concrete debris, the cries kept coming. But after days of digging through rubble with bare hands, rescuers were losing hope of reaching victims of Myanmar’s earthquake.
“The worst part is knowing they’re there but not being able to reach them in time,” said Tay Zar Lin, scraping through the wreckage of a collapsed block of flats in Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city.