Update: Vifo vya tetemeko Myanmar vyazidi 1,700, majeruhi zaidi ya 3,400

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Takwimu za utabiri wa Shirika la Jiolojia la Marekani (USGS) zinaonesha idadi ya vifo huenda ikaongezeka na kufikia zaidi ya 10,000, huku hasara za Kiuchumi zikitarajiwa kuzidi pato la Taifa kwa Mwaka mzima

Shirika la Msalaba Mwekundu (Red Cross) limesema Myanmar inakabiliwa na kiwango cha uharibifu ambacho hakijawahi kushuhudiwa kwa zaidi ya Miaka 100 Barani Asia

Misaada kutoka China, Urusi, India, Uingereza, na mataifa jirani imeanza kuwasili Myanmar kusaidia waathirika wa tetemeko. China imetuma timu za uokoaji na imetangaza msaada wa yuan milioni 100 ($13.8m), huku usafirishaji wa misaada ukianza leo

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• The death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar on Friday has surpassed 1,700 and flattened huge swathes of the South-east Asian nation.
• The US Geological Survey’s predictive modelling estimates Myanmar’s death toll could eventually top 10,000 and losses could exceed the country’s annual economic output.
• Red Cross officials said Myanmar was facing “a level of devastation that hasn’t been seen over a century in Asia”.
• In neighbouring Thailand, at least 18 people have been killed and rescue efforts are continuing at the site of a collapsed 30-storey tower in Bangkok. Rescuers are scrambling to find 78 people still missing.
• Rescuers freed a woman from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar’s Mandalay, officials said on Monday, offering a glimmer of hope that more survivors may be found.
• Images from the city of Mandalay show entire neighbourhoods in ruins and broken-off pagodas from the top of temples reduced to rubble. Highways, bridges, airports and railways in several parts of the country have been damaged, Reuters reports.
• Aid from China, Russia, India, the UK and neighbouring South-east Asian nations has begun flowing into Myanmar.
• China sent an 82-person team of rescuers into the country in the hours after the quake and a 118-member search and rescue team had also arrived, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
• The Chinese government said it would provide 100m yuan ($13.8m) in emergency humanitarian assistance, with shipments to begin Monday.
• In contrast, the US government – which is in the process of gutting its central foreign aid agency, USAID – has pledged just $2m for the relief effort.
• In the city of Sagaing, which was hit by the quake and a series of aftershocks, the provincial fire department was among the building destroyed, damaging all the rescue machinery and vehicles inside.There are not enough rescue teams to retrieve the dead bodies, nor is there sufficient equipment to sift through debris.
• Sagaing’s hospital has also been damaged,forcing patients outside into the searing heat, said Ma Ei, a resident who has helped in the humanitarian efforts. They also need dry food, drinking water and medicines, she said.

Source: The Guardian

 

[Numbisa]

Duh aiseee hatari sana

 

[dudus]

Pole nyingi kwa watu wa Myanmar (Burma). Tawala za kidhalimu zijifunze; udhalimu wao una mipaka ambayo zaidi yake hauwezi kufanya lolote.

 

[Imeloa]

Janga kama hili likitokea Marekani jihadists humu watasema ni adhabu ya Mungu lakini likitokea huko kwingineko hawasemi chochote na wanapita kimyakimya.

Kuna imani zingine misingi yake ni unafiki.