{"id":269832,"date":"2025-03-29T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/families-of-those-trapped-in-rubble-of-collapsed-bangkok-building-after-earthquake-face-agonising-wait\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T22:11:08","slug":"families-of-those-trapped-in-rubble-of-collapsed-bangkok-building-after-earthquake-face-agonising-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/families-of-those-trapped-in-rubble-of-collapsed-bangkok-building-after-earthquake-face-agonising-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Families of those trapped in rubble of collapsed Bangkok building after earthquake face agonising wait"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Bangkok, at the site where a mass of rubble sits, rescue workers have the machinery they need and the manpower to try and pull people out of the high-rise building that collapsed.<\/p>\n

In neighbouring Myanmar, they certainly don’t have that kind of capacity and they’re confronting a much larger death toll<\/a> <\/strong>– one that is rising.<\/p>\n

And yet, progress at the site where an unfinished building was instantly destroyed has been painfully slow.<\/p>\n

All day, we watched as cranes tried to shift the concrete and steel around to make way for rescuers to enter.<\/p>\n

Tide Banluerit, a volunteer rescuer, emerged looking bewildered after 11 hours inside.<\/p>\n

“I looked at the structure and the foundation looked strong,'” he said. “But it’s not meant to collapse like dominoes and stack like pancakes in that way.”<\/p>\n

But there is still hope.<\/p>\n

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The Thai police told us overnight that they had seen signs of life on thermal imaging systems.<\/p>\n

Perhaps as many as 15 people, they believed.<\/p>\n

Families of the missing were holding on to those nuggets of information – holding vigil at a dusty area now full of makeshift water and footstalls, laid on to support the round-the-clock rescue efforts.<\/p>\n

Hovering outside a white tent, Munyapa Thongkorn was waiting for news.<\/p>\n

Wiping away tears as she clutched onto her husband, she told me her 17-year-old daughter Naiyana was trapped.<\/p>\n

She was working as an electrician inside the multi-storey building when the quake hit.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
Myanmar quake victims suffer brunt of Trump cuts<\/a><\/strong>
Eyewitnesses describe quake hitting Myanmar and Bangkok<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“They told me she’s still inside, still stuck,” she says. “I was only just talking to my friends about her before the earthquake. But I haven’t been able to reach her since.”<\/p>\n

A rescuer told me he thought it could be 72 hours before they could properly get inside the mangled structure.<\/p>\n

That’s a long time when every second counts.<\/p>\n

In Myanmar, people are using their own hands to pull their neighbours from the rubble.<\/p>\n

There have been some miraculous escapes.<\/p>\n

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One video from Mandalay shows a young woman emerging from the smallest of gaps – a flash of a hand and then a smile – confirmation after a long rescue that she had survived against all the odds.<\/p>\n

China, Russia, and India have sent teams into the country now after the ruling military junta asked for international support – a rare move.<\/p>\n

They have their work cut out.<\/p>\n

Information in the isolated country has been slow to emerge – the junta restricting access to the internet.<\/p>\n

But videos are starting to show the scale of destruction and the death toll, at over 1,600 as of Saturday evening<\/strong><\/a>, is expected to rise.<\/p>\n

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The US Geological Survey says it could rise as high as 10,000.<\/p>\n

The infrastructure has long been under pressure from a bloody civil war in Myanmar.<\/p>\n

It could easily be totally overwhelmed by this disaster.<\/p>\n

Hospitals are among the buildings hit.<\/p>\n

Over the next 48 hours, we will find out a bit more about just how grave the situation is on the ground.<\/p>\n

Traversing the roads, let alone the whim of the ruling junta, is deeply challenging.<\/p>\n

But even the military concedes, this time, it needs help and fast.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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