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Yahoo
31-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Old stock images falsely presented as Thailand quake sniffer dogs
"Two dogs from Thailand can help 10 people in just a few hours. Good boys!!!" reads the Thai-language caption to pictures of a dog searching through rubble. The March 30 Facebook post has more than 14,000 shares. The images also surfaced in similar Thai-language posts after a powerful earthquake caused an under-construction building in Bangkok to collapse on March 28. At least 18 people have been killed in the capital, city authorities said, with 33 injured and 78 still missing (archived link). Most of the deaths were workers killed in the tower collapse, while most of the missing are believed to be trapped under the immense pile of debris where the skyscraper once stood. Sniffer dogs and thermal imaging drones have been deployed to seek signs of life in the collapsed building, which is close to the Chatuchak weekend market popular among tourists. The 7.7-magnitude quake has killed at least 1,700 people in neighbouring Myanmar, where hopes are fading of finding more survivors in hard-hit Mandalay city. A reverse image search on Google found the circulating pictures uploaded on the Shutterstock website where they are credited to Czech photographer Jaroslav Noska (archived link). All three pictures bear the same caption that reads, "Dog looking for injured people in ruins after earthquake" (archived here, here and here). Shutterstock does not indicate when or where they were taken. AFP has previously debunked posts that misused the same pictures during earlier tremors. Stock website Alamy has also uploaded at least two of the images and noted they were taken on October 18, 2018 (archived here and here). A representative for the company earlier told AFP: "As far as I can tell, both images have been uploaded by the same contributor in October 2018."
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Yahoo
'Devastated': Relatives await news from Bangkok building collapse
Three days after a Bangkok skyscraper collapsed in the wake of a devastating earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar, Naruemol Thonglek is still praying that her boyfriend will emerge from the immense pile of rubble where the building once stood. The sudden crumbling of the 30-storey tower, which was under construction at the time of Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake, has killed at least 11 people and rescue workers are racing to find 76 others still trapped among the debris. Electrician Kyi Than, the boyfriend of Naruemol, is among those missing under the enormous mound of concrete and twisted metal being lifted by mechanical diggers as part of the desperate search. "I'm devastated... I've never seen anything like this in my entire life," 45-year-old Naruemol told AFP from a small shelter near the site, where a group of around 50 relatives await news. "I still pray that he is alive but if he is no longer alive then I hope that we can retrieve his body," she said. Among the missing are Thais, Laotians, Cambodians and Myanmar nationals. Many relatives are choosing to sleep in the shelter, on camp beds or directly on the stone floor, and are reluctant to leave in case news emerges. - 'We wait, we wait' - Rain fell Monday at the site, where sniffer dogs and thermal imaging drones have been deployed to seek signs of life in the collapsed building, which is close to the Chatuchak weekend market popular among tourists. Around lunchtime, Tavida Kamolvej, the deputy governor of Bangkok, raised hopes over a noise or movement in the rubble that could be a survivor, but cautioned that the situation was still extremely unclear and they needed "a quiet moment" to work out its origin. Thailand Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was ushered away from the site, which she had been visiting, as experts rushed to help. At least 18 people have been killed in Bangkok following the quake that struck near Mandalay early Friday afternoon, causing severe damage in central Myanmar in particular and killing more than 1,700 people across the country. In the Thai capital, 33 people have been injured and 78 are still missing, most of them under the rubble of the building site. Naruemol said Kyi Than, a Myanmar national, was among a group of electricians -- including his son -- working on the 26th floor. She told AFP she had lit incense and candles, prayed and wished, begging her boyfriend to return alive. "If you can hear my voice, if you're still alive, please shout and let the officials know," she said, calling out to Kyi Than. Elsewhere in the shelter, Daodee Paruay said she had been at the site for two days, hoping for a miracle. Her brother, also an electrician, is under the rubble. "We wait. We wait. We will wait until (they are) found," she said. wjt-aph/pdw/sco
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Yahoo
'Devastated': Relatives await news from Bangkok building collapse
Three days after a Bangkok skyscraper collapsed in the wake of a devastating earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar, Naruemol Thonglek is still praying that her boyfriend will emerge from the immense pile of rubble where the building once stood. The sudden crumbling of the 30-storey tower, which was under construction at the time of Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake, has killed at least 11 people and rescue workers are racing to find 76 others still trapped among the debris. Electrician Kyi Than, the boyfriend of Naruemol, is among those missing under the enormous mound of concrete and twisted metal being lifted by mechanical diggers as part of the desperate search. "I'm devastated... I've never seen anything like this in my entire life," 45-year-old Naruemol told AFP from a small shelter near the site, where a group of around 50 relatives await news. "I still pray that he is alive but if he is no longer alive then I hope that we can retrieve his body," she said. Among the missing are Thais, Laotians, Cambodians and Myanmar nationals. Many relatives are choosing to sleep in the shelter, on camp beds or directly on the stone floor, and are reluctant to leave in case news emerges. - 'We wait, we wait' - Rain fell Monday at the site, where sniffer dogs and thermal imaging drones have been deployed to seek signs of life in the collapsed building, which is close to the Chatuchak weekend market popular among tourists. Around lunchtime, Tavida Kamolvej, the deputy governor of Bangkok, raised hopes over a noise or movement in the rubble that could be a survivor, but cautioned that the situation was still extremely unclear and they needed "a quiet moment" to work out its origin. Thailand Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was ushered away from the site, which she had been visiting, as experts rushed to help. At least 18 people have been killed in Bangkok following the quake that struck near Mandalay early Friday afternoon, causing severe damage in central Myanmar in particular and killing more than 1,700 people across the country. In the Thai capital, 33 people have been injured and 78 are still missing, most of them under the rubble of the building site. Naruemol said Kyi Than, a Myanmar national, was among a group of electricians -- including his son -- working on the 26th floor. She told AFP she had lit incense and candles, prayed and wished, begging her boyfriend to return alive. "If you can hear my voice, if you're still alive, please shout and let the officials know," she said, calling out to Kyi Than. Elsewhere in the shelter, Daodee Paruay said she had been at the site for two days, hoping for a miracle. Her brother, also an electrician, is under the rubble. "We wait. We wait. We will wait until (they are) found," she said. wjt-aph/pdw/sco
Khaleej Times
31-03-2025
- Khaleej Times
'Never seen anything like this': Relatives await news from Bangkok building collapse
Three days after a Bangkok skyscraper collapsed in the wake of a devastating earthquake in neighbouring Myanmar, Naruemol Thonglek is still praying that her boyfriend will emerge from the immense pile of rubble where the building once stood. The sudden crumbling of the 30-storey tower, which was under construction at the time of Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake, has killed at least 11 people and rescue workers are racing to find 76 others still trapped among the debris. Electrician Kyi Than, the boyfriend of Naruemol, is among those missing under the enormous mound of concrete and twisted metal being lifted by mechanical diggers as part of the desperate search. "I'm devastated... I've never seen anything like this in my entire life," 45-year-old Naruemol told AFP from a small shelter near the site, where a group of around 50 relatives await news. "I still pray that he is alive but if he is no longer alive then I hope that we can retrieve his body," she said. Among the missing are Thais, Laotians, Cambodians and Myanmar nationals. Many relatives are choosing to sleep in the shelter, on camp beds or directly on the stone floor, and are reluctant to leave in case news emerges. 'We wait, we wait' Rain fell Monday at the site, where sniffer dogs and thermal imaging drones have been deployed to seek signs of life in the collapsed building, which is close to the Chatuchak weekend market popular among tourists. Around lunchtime, Tavida Kamolvej, the deputy governor of Bangkok, raised hopes over a noise or movement in the rubble that could be a survivor, but cautioned that the situation was still extremely unclear and they needed "a quiet moment" to work out its origin. Thailand Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra was ushered away from the site, which she had been visiting, as experts rushed to help. At least 18 people have been killed in Bangkok following the quake that struck near Mandalay early Friday afternoon, causing severe damage in central Myanmar in particular and killing more than 1,700 people across the country. In the Thai capital, 33 people have been injured and 78 are still missing, most of them under the rubble of the building site. Naruemol said Kyi Than, a Myanmar national, was among a group of electricians, including his son, working on the 26th floor. She told AFP she had lit incense and candles, prayed and wished, begging her boyfriend to return alive. "If you can hear my voice, if you're still alive, please shout and let the officials know," she said, calling out to Kyi Than. Elsewhere in the shelter, Daodee Paruay said she had been at the site for two days, hoping for a miracle. Her brother, also an electrician, is under the rubble. "We wait. We wait. We will wait until (they are) found," she said.
Al Etihad
29-03-2025
- Politics
- Al Etihad
Deadly Myanmar quake: What we know so far
30 Mar 2025 00:17 Bangkok (AFP)A powerful earthquake centred in Myanmar has killed more than 1,600 people in the country and neighbouring Thailand -- and caused widespread damage. Here is what we know: Powerful, and shallow The 7.7-magnitude quake hit northwest of Myanmar's Sagaing at 12:50 pm (0620 GMT) on Friday at a shallow was followed minutes later by a powerful 6.7-magnitude aftershock and a dozen smaller quake was felt across the region, with shaking reported from India to the west and China to the east, as well as Cambodia and was the biggest quake to hit Myanmar in decades, according to quake hit along the Sagaing Fault that runs from the coast to Myanmar's northern border, according to earthquake scientists Judith Hubbard and Kyle "has long been considered one of the most dangerous strike-slip faults on Earth" because of its proximity to major cities Yangon and Mandalay, as well as the capital Naypyidaw, they wrote in an fault is comparatively simple and straight, which geologists believe can lead to especially large quakes, they added. Over 1,600 killed At least 1,644 people were killed and more than 3,400 injured in Myanmar, the ruling junta said in a toll is expected to rise significantly, given the widespread destruction across the of civil war have weakened the country's emergency and health services, leaving them ill-equipped to respond to such a Thailand, 10 people were killed in Bangkok, most in the collapse of an under-construction city's governor said 79 people were still unaccounted for at the building, near the sprawling Chatuchak market. Widespread damage With communications badly disrupted in Myanmar, the true scale of the disaster is only starting to emerge from the isolated military-ruled was massive destruction in Mandalay, where multiple buildings collapsed into piles of rubble and twisted metal coated in dust, dotted with people attempting Ava bridge running across the Irrawaddy river from Sagaing, built nearly 100 years ago, collapsed into the swirling waters were reports of damage to Mandalay airport, potentially complicating relief efforts, as well as to the city's university and palace, according to the Red Naypyidaw, AFP reporters saw buildings toppled and roads a hospital in the capital, patients were being treated outdoors after the quake damaged the building, bringing down the emergency department's outages were reported in several places, with power limited to four hours in Yangon due to quake across affected areas were also patchy, with phone networks largely Bangkok, a crane collapsed at a second building site and the city shut down metro and light rail services overnight to inspect for hundred people slept in parks overnight, city authorities said, either unable to get home or worried about the structural integrity of their quake prompted thousands of people to flee shaking buildings in Thailand, where quakes are hospitals were evacuated, with one woman delivering a baby in the street in Bangkok, and a surgeon continuing to operate on a patient after being forced to leave the theatre mid-surgery. Aid pleas, offers The scale of the devastation prompted Myanmar's regime to make a rare plea for international junta chief invited "any country, any organisation" to help with relief and said he "opened all ways for foreign aid".Offers of assistance flooded in, including a flight from neighbour India arriving in Yangon on Saturday, carrying hygiene kits, blankets, food parcels and other sent teams of rescuers while the European Union pledged support, and US President Donald Trump said Washington had "already spoken" with Myanmar about aid."It's a real bad one, and we will be helping," he told reporters. The World Health Organization said it was preparing to surge support in response to "a very, very big threat to life and health".
