Yogita Limai
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It's so strong, we're all having to wear at least two masks. In the compound of the monastery, the families of those trapped are sitting under a makeshift tent. We meet Ula Ong, the father of 29-year-old monk Utuzana, who's trapped inside. Knowing my son ended up like this, I'm inconsolable. I'm filled with grief, Ula Ong says, as his face crumples into a sob.
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At the rescue site, work is slow and demanding. They've spotted what they think are three bodies under the debris, but even getting to them to extricate them is a really difficult task. And while I've been walking around here, I can see the robes, the orange robes that monks usually wear. The whole place really just a pile of debris. all collapsed one on top of the other.
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And so getting people out, alive or dead, is extremely difficult. The main difficulty in this operation is... Neeraj Singh, who's leading the team of rescuers who've come from India to help, describes how tough their task is.
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As we're driving around the city, we're seeing lots of places where there is just no rescue work going on. On one street, I'm looking at a building which is about five stories high. It used to be a hotel and then was renovated into an office space. And it's literally sort of come down onto the road.
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And we're told by people here that there are five people stuck inside and no rescue efforts have begun. In fact, I can see the families, I think, of those who are stuck inside. And someone's pointed to a woman whose son was working in this building. And I'm just going to speak to her now.
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Nanxin Han has been waiting on this street for five days, hoping someone will come and search for her son, Sai Han Pan. I'm very distressed. I'm just holding on, hoping to see my son's face. Whether he's dead or alive, I just want to see his body.
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The military government has uneasy relations with many foreign countries, especially Western nations, and so the only foreign rescuers arriving here are from countries like India, China and Russia, among others. The shortage of manpower is severely hampering the possibility of anyone being dug out alive.
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One of the places that the rescue efforts are focusing on right now is the Ulathin Monastery where I am. And in front of me literally I can just see a huge part of the structure has just collapsed. And all around me there are concrete blocks. We're having to be really careful as well just to make sure that we're safe from any hanging debris. In front of me I can see rescuers.
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There are varying estimates of... how many people were stuck inside the structure when it collapsed. Some say 80, some say more than 100. What we're told is that there were a lot of Buddhist monks who were taking an examination when this building collapsed. Where I'm standing right now, it's a really, really strong smell of dead bodies, basically of rotting flesh.