SCDF team recovers body from partially collapsed hotel after Myanmar quake, sets up 2 medical outposts
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The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) team aiding with search and rescue efforts in Myanmar has helped recover a body from under the rubble of a nine-story hotel which partially collapsed following the major 7.7 magnitude earthquake on March 28. In a FaceSCDF team recovers body from partially collapsed hotel after Myanmar quake, sets up 2 medical outposts
The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) team aiding with search and rescue efforts in Myanmar has helped recover a body from under the rubble of a nine-story hotel which partially collapsed following the major 7.7 magnitude earthquake on March 28. In a Facebook post on April 6, SCDF said their Operation Lionheart team has been actively involved in search operations in Ottara Thiri Township in the country's capital Naypyidaw over the past two days. Together with the Myanmar Earthquake Relief Contingent from Vietnam, rescuers discovered a body beneath «layers of concrete and steel» at the hotel. The Operation Lionheart contingent then worked with Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency to extricate the body by breaking through the concrete debris. Read more
