Mandalay: A woman has been rescued alive from the rubble of a block of apartment collapsed in Mandalay, 30 hours after a powerful earthquake hit Myanmar, leaving dozens feared below the rubble.
The applause sounded when Phyu Lay Khaing, 30, was taken from the condominium of heaven by rescuers and carefully removed from the rubble on a stretcher.
Her husband, Ye Aung, who had been waiting for the news anxiously, hugged her when the stretcher was raised.
“At the beginning, I didn't think she would be alive,” Ye hung told AFP while waiting for his wife to leave the rubble.
“I am very happy to have heard good news,” said the merchant, who has two children with his wife: William, eight years old and Ethan, five years old.
When the ambulance moved away to the hospital, Ye Aung was seen through the window grabbing his wife's hand.
A Red Cross official told AFP previously that more than 90 people could be trapped under the remains of the Apartment Block.
The earthquake of the magnitude of 7.7 shaded northwest of Mandalay early on Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a replica of 6.7 magnitude.
The tremors destroyed buildings, knocked down bridges and felled roads through vast areas of Myanmar, with a massive destruction seen in Mandalay, the second largest city in the country and the home of more than 1.7 million people.
