(28 Apr 2025)
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Pyinmana, Myanmar – 28 April 2025
1. Wide of mechanical digger cutting into side of wrecked house
2. Digger smashing down flimsy structures
3. Wide of machines demolishing buildings
4. Wide of people watching
5. Wide of cleared area with machines at work
6. Wide of digger in operation
7. Wide of cleared area
8. Various of people amongst rubble, clearing
9. Various of wrecked housing
10. Various of workers around the housing
STORYLINE:
One month after Myanmar’s deadly earthquake, humanitarian needs continue to be pressing for hundreds of thousands of survivors, even as the military government is reported to be carrying out air raids despite ceasefires in the country’s civil war meant to aid relief efforts.
The 7.7 magnitude March 28 quake hit a wide swath of the country, causing significant damage to six regions and states including the capital Naypyitaw.
It left many areas without power, telephone or cell connections and damaged roads and bridges, in addition to tens of thousands of buildings.
On Monday, clearance work was continuing around the capital Naypyitaw with mechanical diggers demolishing what was left of the central market at Pyinmana, and as well as some of the damaged housing.
A toll of the destruction wrought by the quake, published on Saturday in the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper, included almost 64,000 houses, almost 7,000 schools, more than 5,000 pagodas and temples, 172 bridges and 586 dams.
It quoted Vice-Senior Gen. Soe Win, the vice-chairman of the ruling military council, as the source.
The state-run MRTV television reported on Sunday evening that the quake’s death toll had reached 3,769, with 5,106 people injured and 107 still missing.
A report released Monday by the Myanmar Witness project of the United Kingdom-based Centre for Information Resilience, said the group had documented 80 air strikes by the military across multiple regions, including 65 after the army declared a unilateral ceasefire on April 2, following similar declarations by its battlefield foes.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army’s 2021 takeover ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which led to nationwide peaceful protests that escalated into armed resistance.
The shadow National Unity Government, the main opposition group coordinating resistance to military rule, said Saturday in a statement that the post-quake bombings had killed over 200 civilians, including at least 24 children.
Independent evaluation of most war claims by either side is impossible, due to the military’s restrictions on reporting and the remoteness of where many incidents took place.
U.N. agencies and other humanitarian organizations meanwhile stress that living conditions remain dire for earthquake survivors.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in a report released Monday said that displaced people were living outdoors in temperatures of up to forty degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), with an overwhelming fear of further aftershocks.
Many who lost their homes are still in makeshift tents with little to protect them from pre-monsoon storms ahead of months-long rainy season which normally begin in May, humanitarian services say.
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