On Friday, two earthquakes struck south-east Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, and a part of China. The first one had a magnitude of 7,7 and the second one, 6,4. The earthquakes led to around 3500 deaths, while the search for people continues, casualties will rise.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the first quake occured at 12:50 local time, at a depth of 10 kilometers, 16 kilometers north-west from Sugaing city in Myanmar. The second one struck 11 minutes later, 18 km south from the same city.
90 to 110 construction workers are trapped under a 30-storey building in Bangkok, Thailand’s capital, that was still under construction when it collapsed. At least 8 people were dead after this accident.
“We were saying prayers when the shaking started… Three died on the spot,” said one of the two witnesses of the partial collapse of a mosque in the city of Taungoo, 70 miles away from the capital Naypyidaw in Myanmar. This tragedy killed 3 people.
A state of emergency has been declared by the military government of Myanmar in six regions.
A social worker named Ko Zeyar mentioned: “The smell of the dead bodies has overwhelmed the town,”.
South-east Asia is going through a hard time, considering that slavery is hardly controlled. In February, authorities from Thailand, China, and Myanmar led an operation that freed more than 7000 people from Myanmar.
These people were forced by the gangs that run the industry to scam Internet users worldwide and ”worked” in tough conditions. At first, scammers from Thailand told them they would be paid, but it was a lie.
Thousands of people from different countries, young men and women, were sick and scamming people on the Internet. They were forced to wear surgical masks over their eyes and mouths, aligned in rows, working up to 16 hours per day.. People who refused to work could face electric shocks, starvation, and beating.
As these people were rescued, some were trapped in facilities filled with sick people adding with poor hygiene and no medical care.
The United States Institute of Peace made an estimation in which 300,000 other people are trapped in the same conditions, forced to commit scams.
