Fight in a 30-storey Bangkok building reduced to rubble

When the sun goes over Bangkok, hundreds of rescue workers are desperately looking for those who survived on a 30-storey skyscraper at the Thai-Thai capital.

Rescuers are trying to reach dozens of workers who got in the rubble after the skyscraper collapsed.

Standing on the bridge at a short distance from the stage, under the orange radiance of the sky, a group of reporters, including I, with disbelief, see the three -storey piles of concrete.

Caused wire and metal release.

Even when more professional rescue and military teams come and floodlights are set, it seems little chance of finding a lot of survivors.

A shallow earthquake at 7.7 magnety got into the central Myanmar and a few minutes later, 6.4, tearing up the buildings and gap of roads.

Here, across the border in Thailand, there were also shocks and devastation. Residents are fighting for responding to a natural disaster to which few are used to.

I was in my house when the strollers started, and it was unlike everything I felt before.

A broken building owned by the National Audit Bureau was built for three years worth more than two billion Thai Baht ($ 59 million; £ 45 million) – now reduced to rubble.

White tents were erected around the perimeter when rescuers in bright -yellow solid hats work to release, estimated 81 people who are still captured under the destroyed skyscraper.

Defense Minister Thailand Fumtem evening told reporters that three people had been confirmed by the dead. I used to see two covered bodies that are transferred to the tents.

The road near the building is full of fire trucks, ambulances and other rescue cars. The curious civilians joined us on the bridge, watching to try to understand what was happening.

Heavy technique begins to arrive, including a large crane. Rescuers say they need them to remove the garbage before they can start searching without missing.

I arrived less than an hour after the collapse to find the construction workers covered with dust, stunned by the fact that they just survived.

Addissorn Comfasorne knocked down materials from the sixth floor when he suddenly felt the tremor. The 18-year-old guy looked at the stairs and saw the crane trembling.

He said to me, “I knew that here it would be bad. I ran. It took one minute to collapse. Suddenly the smoke and everything became black. I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t have a mask.”

He had not yet talked to his family because he lost his phone in chaos, saying he had never felt anything like that in his life. He thought he would die.

Builders tell me they were a mixture of Thai and Burmese.

The 30 -year -old Nukul Hemut worked on the fifth floor when he felt the jolts. He raised his head and saw that all the floors were immersed, forming holes.

He said that one of his colleagues had just walked to the tenth floor to use the bathroom and they are still waiting for the news about his location. He said to me, “We just shouted” run “and told each other to hold hands and run together.”

When I was talking to them, they sat there smoking there, trying to calm down. They looked sad. None of the survivors received medical care, because all the attention was focused on those who were still trapped.

As the drilling sound is exacerbated, rescuers face a long night forward.

Additional Rachel Hogan Report in London