“The whole hotel fell, I thought I was in hell, I was shouting ‘Save me, save me’. My body was getting very hot and I just needed water. I was not getting water from anywhere. So I had to drink fluids coming out of my body.” Five days after the Myanmar earthquake, the story of the struggle for the life of Tin Maung Htwe, which was taken out of the rubble, will make the story of the struggle emotional.
Five after five days after the debris
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand on Friday (28 March 2025) caused huge devastation. The death toll in the earthquake has reached close to three thousand while 4,639 people are injured and about 400 people are still missing. At the same time, at least 18 people have been killed in Thailand due to earthquake. Five days after the earthquake, 47 -year -old Tin Mong Hatve was taken out alive.
Two things used to stay alive- lessons taught in school and toilet
Five days, the teacher mong, who was buried in the wreck of the hotel, was struggling to live under a bed. At the time of earthquake, two things helped them to study one school and the other toilet. When the 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurred, the headmaster of the primary school was in the closest to the center of the Tin Mong Hutway Earthquake. At the time of the earthquake, Mong remembered the lesson of his school, stating that if the earthquake comes, go under the bed or table.
Photo after Myanmar’s earthquake (AFP)
What did Tin Mong, buried under the rubble, say what?
According to the news agency AFP report, the person said, “As soon as I went under the bed, the whole hotel fell and the road was blocked. I could only say ‘save me’. I could ‘save me’. I was shouting ‘Save me, save me’. Had to drink. ” He told this when he had a pipe of oxygen in his nose and two intravenous drips were installed to deliver water or medicine in his weak body.
Everything was destroyed in the earthquake
The Swal Tao Nain Guesthouse he stayed in a pile of bricks and turned metal strips, the broken part of its upper floor was hinged on the remains of the people below, and the tin mong was in the floor room at the bottom. Many buildings in Sagiing near the center of the earthquake had similar conditions, in a few moments everything had turned into a pile of debris. There were big cracks on the main road, those who tried to help the victims had to face traffic jams. The Awa bridge connecting two cities on the Iravadi river has collapsed, one out of 10 bridges went into quiet water.
Rescue personnel after Myanmar earthquake (photo- PTI)
Rescuers lost hopes of getting someone alive
People living there said that Myanmar was recovering the bodies from the Red Cross scene and when they found Tin Mong Hatve, they did not expect anyone to meet anyone alive there. The Malaysian rescue team was called to evacuate him.
When the brother brought him out of the rubble, sister -in -law
Out of eight siblings of Tin Mong, 50-year-old sister Nan Yone was watching the rescue team. When he saw the rescue team out of the rubble, he wept, started dancing happily. On Wednesday, Nan Won said, “I can’t say it in words, I was dancing, crying and beating my chest because I was very happy. When brother reached the main hospital in Sagiing, he said to him,” Sister I am very fine. “His will is very strong and I think he survived.”
Her sister with Surviver Tin Maung Hutve. (AFP)
Tin monging on becoming a Buddhist monk
Tin Mong Hutwe told AFP, “I am happy that I am free now, if I die, I could not do anything. I could not die so now I can do whatever I want.” Tin Mong now wants to go back to school teacher and teach children, but he further said, “I am also considering becoming a Buddhist monk.”