MYANMAR: When a huge earthquake shook central Myanmar on Friday, Htet Min Oo was completing Ramadan customary ablutions at a mosque near his Mandalay home. His home and a portion of the mosque fell, hiding half of his body beneath the rubble of a wall that buried two of his aunts. Residents rushed to rescue the aunts, he added, but only one survived.
Htet Min Oo, 25, said two uncles and his grandmother were also trapped behind heaps of concrete. With no heavy equipment accessible, he attempted to clear the rubble with his hands but was unable to do so.
There’s too much rubble and no rescue crews have arrived for us,” he said, his voice quivering as he burst into tears. Hundreds of Muslims are believed to have died in Myanmar when a minor earthquake struck while worshippers were gathered at mosques for Friday prayers during the holy month.
More than 50 mosques were damaged, according to the shadow National Unity Government.
A 39-year-old Mandalay resident revealed horrifying images as he attempted to rescue a guy stuck under the wreckage of a collapsed mosque in Sule Kone hamlet, but was forced to flee because to powerful aftershocks. I had to leave him behind.” I went in a second time to attempt to save him,” he claimed, declining to be named.
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