A survivor of the collapse of a building in Mandalay told about the incident

A survivor of the collapse of the Sky Villa condo hotel. during the earthquake that occurred in Mandalay in Myanmar, he told about what happened. The footage was made available to Izvestia on March 31.

"The earthquake happened. It's okay, I'm alive, sixth floor," the man said.

In the footage, you can see that there are destroyed walls and a collapsed ceiling near it.

The survivor said that of all the people who were in the building, only he and a neighbor were able to survive.

Powerful earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand: there are dead due to the collapse of buildings

The consequences of the rampant disaster were felt by several countries in the region

On March 28, two earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 6.4 were recorded in Myanmar. The epicenter of one of them was located 31 km northwest of the city of Mandalay. The death toll in Myanmar was 1.7 thousand people, more than 3.4 thousand were injured, and 300 are missing. In Bangkok, the death toll from the earthquake rose to 18.

On March 29, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that over 100 Russian rescuers had arrived in Myanmar to provide medical assistance to the victims. On March 31, rescuers from Russia and their colleagues from China pulled a woman who had been lying there for more than two days out of the rubble in Mandalay.