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Lessons And Liquids: Buried Alive In Myanmar's Earthquake

Tin Maung Htwe was rescued after five days of being trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake (Credit: AFP)

Entombed under his hotel bed for five days in the debris, two things enabled teacher Tin Maung Htwe to survive Myanmar's devastating earthquake: old school lessons and his own urine.

The primary school headmaster was on a training course in Sagaing, the closest place to the epicentre, when the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck.

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