Tourists in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, were caught in anarchy on Friday when a strong earthquake hit the area. On the roads and shopping malls, people shouted in panic, before they were evacuated.
The news agency AP reported that Fraser Morton, a tourist who was shopping for camera equipment in several malls in Bangkok, said that when the building got nervous, there was panic and people were “wrongly under the escalators,” the news agency AP said.
“I was just behind me in this building. It was a shopping mall and I was there to buy a camera equipment. And suddenly the entire building bus started moving. Immediately there was screaming, very nervous,” said Mr. Morton.
“I just started walking peacefully, but then the building began to move really. And yes, a lot of screaming, very nervous.
Paul Vincent, a tourist from England, noticed that water was coming from a tall building and other buildings. “Shouting and nervous,” he said.
“I was sitting in the restaurant once more … just talking to a stranger there, and the next thing, because it was a small strip, we felt just a movement … but the next thing, everyone came on the road. So everyone was very shouting and nervous, who clearly made it very bad,” said Shri Vincent.
A strong 6.4 magnitude after the earthquake was afterchock, and people in Bangkok were removed from their buildings, if there were more, was warned to live out.
A tall building under construction collapsed in Bangkok. Police told AP that they were responding at the scene near the popular Chotuch market in Bangkok, and there was no immediate information about how many workers were on the site at the time of collapse.
Hundreds of thousands of people exited their homes and workplaces due to magnitude 7.7 earthquake.
The US Geological Survey and the GFZ Center for GeoSyinses in Germany stated that the earthquake was a shallow 10 km, according to the initial reports, with a sub -center in Myanmar.
Greater Bangkok region is home to over 17 million people, many of which live in high -rise apartments.
Especially in Myanmar, the earthquake caused widespread damage, where buildings fell on their sides, roads were opened, and the famous Awa Bridge collapsed near the sub -center.
In the capital Naypyidaw, the news agency AFP reported the entrance of the emergency department to the city’s main hospital, which is a pancade on a car. The 1,000-bed facility was being injured and treated outside, the intravenous drip was hanging from their gurneys. AFP said that some people were in pain, other people still demanded relatives to give them rest.
A hospital official removed the journalists saying: “This is a collective casualtime area.” Another official said that hundreds of injured people had reached the facility.
With input from agencies
