PORTAL RASMI
JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI
AGENSI PENGURUSAN BENCANA NEGARA
JABATAN PERDANA MENTERI
AGENSI PENGURUSAN BENCANA NEGARA
SUBANG, 30 Mac - Seramai 50 pegawai dan anggota Pasukan Mencari dan Menyelamat Khas Malaysia (SMART) bertolak ke Mynmar pagi tadi bagi menyertai operasi mencari dan menyelamat (SAR) di kawasan paling terkesan akibat gempa bumi di Myanmar.
Pasukan berlepas menggunakan dua pesawat A400 Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia (TUDM). Pesawat pertama berlepas pada pukul 9.30 pagi sementara pesawat kedua bergerak setengah jam selepas itu.
Operasi disertai seorang Komanden Kontijen, serta 49 anggota termasuk 16 dari ATM, 13 Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) serta 21 Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia (JBPM).
Fokus misi kali ini adalah tertumpu pada operasi memcari dan menyelamat. Antara peralatan yang dibawa ialah set Base of Operations (BoO), peralatan mencari dan menyelamat, komunikasi, teknikal, perubatan dan dua buah trak Man.
Tempat operasi dan tempoh masa operasi SMART di Myanmar akan ditentukan oleh kerajaan Myanmar.
Dalam pada itu, dua kali mesyuarat penyelarasan telah dilakukan oleh Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara (NADMA) untuk misi bantuan ini bersama agensi terlibat.
Tragedi ini telah mengorbankan sekurang-kurangnya lebih 1,600 orang , sementara 3,408 cedera setakat kemaskini awal pagi tadi.
NAYPYIDAW: Rows of wounded lay outside the emergency department of the 1,000-bed hospital in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw on Friday, some writhing in pain and others in shock after a powerful earthquake.
A stream of casualties were brought to the hospital -- some in cars, others in pickups, and others carried on stretchers, their bodies bloody and covered in dust.
“This is a mass casualty area”, a hospital official said, as they ushered journalists away from the treatment area.
The hospital itself was hit by the terrifying tremors, which buckled roads and ripped tarmac apart as the ground vibrated violently for around half a minute.
The hospital's emergency department was itself heavily damaged, a car crushed under the heavy concrete of its fallen entrance.
“Many injured people have been arriving, I haven’t seen anything like this before,“ a doctor at the hospital told AFP.
BANGKOK: A strong earthquake in Myanmar has caused damage to many high-rise buildings in the Thai capital Bangkok, its governor said on Friday.
Chadchart Sittipunt said the number of buildings damaged was not yet known and inspections were underway. He urged people to be cautious. - REUTERS
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: A powerful earthquake hit Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand on Friday, turning a major hospital in the Myanmar capital into a "mass casualty area" and trapping dozens of workers in an under-construction skyscraper in Bangkok.
The 7.7-magnitude tremor hit northwest of the city of Sagaing on Friday afternoon at a shallow depth, the United States Geological Survey said. A 6.4-magnitude aftershock hit the same area minutes later.
The quakes wrought widespread damage, particularly in Myanmar, where buildings fell onto their sides, roads cracked open, and the well-known Ava bridge collapsed near the epicentre.
In the capital Naypyidaw, AFP journalists saw the entrance of the emergency department at the city's main hospital pancaked onto a car.
KUNMING: Strong tremors were felt in some cities in southwest China's Yunnan Province bordering Myanmar, after a 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar at 2:20 p.m. Friday. No casualties have been reported in Yunnan so far.
Many residents in the provincial capital of Kunming came or stayed outdoors to escape danger, upon feeling the quake tremor.
Li Zhihao, a resident in the city of Jinghong, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture bordering Myanmar, said he felt a tremor lasting nearly one minute.
The epicenter was monitored at 21.85 degrees north latitude and 95.95 degrees east longitude. The quake struck at a depth of 30 km, said a report issued by the China Earthquake Networks Center. - Xinhua