Young girl rescued from monastery collapse in Myanmar quake

Record ID: 1987793

  • Title: Young girl rescued from monastery collapse in Myanmar quake
  • Date: 2nd April 2025
  • Summary: YAMETHIN, MANDALAY, MYANMAR (APRIL 1, 2025) (OBTAINED BY REUTERS)(PART MUTE) PEOPLE DIGGING GROUND, LIFTING STONES AROUND GIRL, PAN EI, 13, WHOSE BODY IS PARTIALLY BURIED IN GROUND / MAN GIVING WATER TO PAN EI (RESCUER SAYING (Burmese): "Don’t push the pole. It will fall down on us" / PAN EI SAYING (Burmese): "I am getting hurt, I can’t anymore" / RESCUER SAYING (Burmese):
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  • Keywords: Earthquake Monastery Monk Myanmar
  • Location: YAMETHIN, MANDALAY, MYANMAR
  • City: YAMETHIN, MANDALAY, MYANMAR
  • Country: Myanmar
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Ground Accidents/Collisions,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA004358902042025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
    Rescuers safely pulled a young girl out from the rubble of a collapsed monastery in Mandalay on Tuesday (April 1) after a 7.7 magnitude quake hit the region.
    Pan Ei, a 13-year old student, was attending summer school at a Buddhist monastery in Yamethin, when the devastating earthquake struck, causing the building to collapse and killing 13 of her classmates, one of the monastery’s monks said.
    The 7.7 magnitude quake, one of the strongest to hit Myanmar in a century, jolted a region that is home to 28 million people, toppling buildings, flattening communities and leaving many without food, water and shelter.
    The military has struggled to run Myanmar since its return to power in a 2021 coup that unseated the elected civilian government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
    The military takeover has seen the economy and basic services including healthcare reduced to tatters amid an outbreak of civil war.
    The death toll from the quake rose to 2,886 on Wednesday, state media reported.
    (Production: Zaw Naing Oo, Chiara Rodriquez)
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