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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok

Myanmar earthquake: woman trapped for days pulled alive from the rubble

Members of a Chinese search and rescue team transfer a survivor from the collapsed Great Wall Hotel in Mandalay on Monday.
Members of a Chinese search and rescue team transfer a survivor from the collapsed Great Wall Hotel in Mandalay on Monday. Photograph: Cai Yang/AP

A woman trapped beneath the remains of a hotel building for nearly 60 hours after a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar was pulled alive from the rubble on Monday, officials said, in a rare moment of hope for rescue teams scrambling to find survivors.

Rescuers, many of them unequipped volunteers, have spent days trying to free people from buildings collapsed following Friday’s huge earthquake, which killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.

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