Rescuers save a woman from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar. A Chinese government Facebook post says the woman was rescued from the rubble of the Great Wall Hotel in the city of Mandalay and was reported to be in a stable condition.
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00:00Rescuers save a woman from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar.
00:05A Chinese government Facebook post says the woman was rescued from the rubble of the Great
00:09Wall Hotel in the city of Mandalay and was reported to be in a stable condition.
00:14This gives hope three days after a 7.7-magnitude quake on Friday that killed around 2,000 people
00:20as search teams in Myanmar and Thailand raced against time to find more survivors.
00:25Mandalay is close to the epicenter of the quake, which caused massive damage in Myanmar
00:29and some damage in neighboring Thailand.
00:32In Bangkok, emergency teams resumed their search on Monday for 76 people who are believed
00:37to be trapped under the rubble of a collapsed skyscraper under construction.
00:41Red Cross officials say Myanmar is facing a humanitarian crisis and the need for aid
00:45is increasing.
00:47Regional Director for Asia-Pacific at the International Federation of Red Cross and
00:51Red Crescent Societies Alexander Matthews says,
00:54"...this is not just a disaster.
00:56It's a complex humanitarian crisis layered over existing vulnerabilities."