Xinhua
30 Mar 2025, 07:45 GMT+10
Members of the Chinese Blue Sky Rescue team are working at the site of the collapsed Sky Villa Condominium in Mandalay, a central city of Myanmar, on March 30, 2025. (Xinhua)NAY PYI TAW/KUNMING, March 30 (Xinhua) -- A rescue team of China's Yunnan Province, joined by Myanmar's rescue forces, retrieved an elderly man in earthquake-hit Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw at 05:00 local time on Sunday.The man had been trapped for nearly 40 hours under the rubble of a hospital in the city. After an overnight emergency rescue, it was the first person rescued by the Chinese team after arriving in the earthquake-stricken area of Myanmar on Saturday.The 37-member team from China's Yunnan Province arrived in Myanmar on Saturday, carrying full-function life detectors, earthquake early warning systems, portable satellite phones, drones and other rescue equipment. Team members, after landing in Yangon, headed to the hard-hit city of Nay Pyi Taw.At 18:30 local time on Saturday, the rescue team arrived in Nay Pyi Taw, immediately starting their work. According to the team, the three-story hospital where it has been working on the rescue, was severely damaged, as the first floor completely collapsed, burying numerous people.The rescuers have been using life detectors to find survivors with vital signs under the rubble.
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