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The Burmese town of Mandalay became a “scene of tragedy”, a 7.7 earthquake survivor, which hit the central Myanmar on Friday.

“It’s like a destroyed city. Some are still stuck under the ruins,” she said. “It was so strong. So seriously I’ve never seen anything that I shake.”

“There are so many people injured in the General Hospital,” she added, describing the damage throughout the city.

Another woman has discovered how she could hear the voices of people trapped in a hotel that crashed.

“I can hear my mother cry, friends, because their children are still inside the building. She’s desperate to watch,” the woman said, “he said.

“This earthquake is a total disaster,” she continued. “We need help.”

According to official data, at least 144 people lost their lives in Myanmar, with more than 700 injured.

But building a clear picture exactly what happens over the southeast Asian nation is not easy.

The approach is limited from 2021. year, when the army took over power after the coup. Foreign journalists can rarely be officially entered due to the lack of freedom of the press.

Many people who talked to the BBC and other agencies, did not give their names for security reasons.

The resident in Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar, said for the BBC World Service’s Information Program, shakes were “quite intense” and lasted for about four minutes.

The man, who wanted to remain anonymous for security reasons, described the awakening of the nap in the building, shaking violently.

“It took about three to four minutes,” he said. “I received messages from friends and realized that he was not only in Yangon, but also many places across the country.”

They were so strong that they felt far beyond the myanmar borders – in China and Thailand.

In Mandalaj, the second largest city of Myanmarova, the pictures of social media showed demolished buildings, including parts of the historic royal palace.

He spaced from the 90-year-old bridge, while the parts of the main highway connecting Yangon to the city were torn.

Myanmar officials declared the “mass area of ​​the accident” in the general hospital of Nay Pyi Taw in the country’s equity, Where patients are placed on Gurnes out there, intravenous drips hanging from improvised stands.

The military junta also declared the rare appeal to the extraordinary situation in six regions.

“We want the international community to send humanitarian aid as soon as possible,” Junta Min Aung Hlaing.

Shin Thant Sanar, a student from Myanmar at the University of Sheffield, said the BBC to wake up in an angry call from the mother. Panika filled her mother’s voice as she said that the buildings crashed around her.

“Moments later, my aunt entered her, posters; she lost everything. It was a heart rate, made even worse when phone lines were cut,” said the phone lines were cut off.

No her family was injured “, but destruction is irresistible,” she said.

“As he was on Friday the prayer road there, I learned that many people were in mosques that collapsed, injuries many and causing deaths.

“Streets and buildings I grew up now are unrecognizable.”

Additional reporting James Kelly, Andrée Massiah, Bernadette McCague and Liz Roberts