• Rescue personnel competitions are searching for survivors in Myanmar and Thailand.
• In Myanmar, the death toll exceeds 1,700, and 18-year-olds died in Thailand.
• The civil war in Myanmar complicates earthquake relief efforts.

Bangkok: Rescuers released a woman from the ruins of a hotel in Myanmar, killing about 2,000 people three days after a huge earthquake as searchers in Myanmar and Thailand competed for time but competed with time to find more survivors, rescuers said Monday.

The woman was pulled out of rubble after being trapped in the collapsed Ayutthaya hotel in Mandalay City after five hours of operation, according to the Facebook Post of the Chinese Embassy. It said she was in steady state early Monday.

Mandalay near the center of Friday’s 7.7 shock earthquake, causing massive destruction in Myanmar and damage in neighbouring Thailand.

On Monday, first responders used cranes and dog sniffers to continue desperately searching for 76 people in the collapsed rubble of the buried skyscraper.

Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said that while traditional propaganda windows can bring people to a quick approach, rescuers did not give up.

“The search will continue even after 72 hours, because in Türkiye, people who have been trapped for a week have survived. The search has not been cancelled yet,” Chadchart said.

He said the machine scan of the rubble showed that there were still people below who were still alive and were dispatching dog sniffers to try to find out where they were.

“We found weak life signals and there are many attractions,” he said.

Official death toll in Thailand is around 18 on Sunday, but more rescues can be fired on collapsed construction sites.

In Myanmar, state media said at least 1,700 people have been confirmed dead. Wall Street JournalMyanmar’s death toll has reached 2,028, citing the ruling military government. Reuters New deaths cannot be confirmed immediately. The United Nations said it is estimated that there are an estimated 23,000 geological survivors in central Myanmar, which is a much-needed relief product.

“Despite the trauma, our team in Mandalay is working to expand the humanitarian response,” said Noriko Takagi, the representative of the UN refugee agency in Myanmar. “Time is crucial because Myanmar needs to unite and support globally through this huge destruction.”

India, China and Thailand are one of Myanmar’s neighbors that have sent relief materials and teams, as well as aid and personnel from Malaysia, Singapore and Russia.

The United States promises $2 million in aid “through the Humanitarian Aid Organization in Myanmar.” It said in a statement that the U.S. Agency for International Development’s emergency response team, which is being cut in a massive scale under the Trump administration, is deploying to Myanmar.

The earthquake damage has made Myanmar even more miserable, which has been plunged into chaos in a civil war that revolted nationwide after a military coup in 2021 dispelled Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

A rebel group said the Myanmar ruling military is still conducting air strikes on villages after the earthquake, and Singapore’s foreign minister called for an immediate ceasefire to help with relief efforts.

The country has 55 million critical infrastructure (including bridges, highways, airports and railways) that have damaged, humanitarian efforts have slowed down, and conflicts have hit the economy, displaced more than 3.5 million people and ravaged the health system.