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Nearly 90 people trapped in rubble of earthquake-hit apartment building

29 March 2025 15:08 (UTC +04:00)

Over 90 people are trapped in the debris of an apartment block in Myanmar’s Mandalay as rescue operations continue a day after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the country, APA reports citing foreign media.

A Red Cross official told AFP that the Sky Villa Condominium was among the buildings worst hit by the tremors, with several of its 12-storey towers pancaked one on top of the other.

“Nine people are dead and 44 have been extracted alive,” the Red Cross official at the scene told AFP, requesting anonymity.

“More than 90 people could be inside. We are still collecting data as people keep informing us they are looking for their missing family members.”

The Condo, which was originally a 12-storey building, has been reduced to six floors by the quake, with the cracked pastel green walls of the upper floors perched on the crushed remains of the lower levels. A woman’s body stuck out of the wreckage, her arm and hair hanging down.