{"id":70566,"date":"2025-03-30T04:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-devastation"},"modified":"2025-03-30T04:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:02:50","slug":"scramble-to-free-survivors-as-death-toll-passes-1600-after-myanmar-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70566","title":{"rendered":"Scramble to free survivors as death toll passes 1,600 after Myanmar earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woman pulled to safety after 30 hours trapped in building a rare glimmer of hope in midst of devastation<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/myanmar-volunteers-dig-earthquake-victims\">\u2018No one came\u2019: Myanmar volunteers dig with bare hands to save earthquake victims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rescue workers battled for a second night to find survivors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/mar\/28\/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates\">Myanmar\u2019s devastating earthquake<\/a>, which has killed at least 1,644 people and injured thousands more.<\/p>\n<p>Teams with little protective equipment, at times using only their bare hands, scrambled to free survivors from the rubble of countless buildings that were shattered by Friday\u2019s 7.7-magnitude earthquake.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/29\/myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-devastation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman pulled to safety after 30 hours trapped in building a rare glimmer of hope in midst of devastation\u2022 \u2018No one came\u2019: Myanmar volunteers dig with bare hands to save earthquake victimsRescue workers battled for a second night to find survivors of Mya&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[263,82,1709,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-myanmar","category-natural-disasters","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70567,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70566\/revisions\/70567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}