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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok and Esther J

‘Wherever I looked I saw collapsed buildings’: Myanmar quake rescuers and medics struggle with size of task

Rescuers in blue outfits clamber over rubble to reach an upper level of a collapsed building
Chinese rescuers search for victims at the Sky Villa in Mandalay, Myanmar. Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA

The scale of devastation in central Myanmar is unlike anything rescue workers or medics have seen before, even in a country that has endured more than four years of fierce conflict.

In Sagaing, buildings have collapsed almost everywhere after Friday’s earthquake. The provincial fire department was among the building destroyed, damaging all the rescue machinery and vehicles inside.

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