With scant help from junta, rescue operations continue nearly one week after Myanmar quake

Local emergency response teams were joined by foreign relief workers in recovering bodies and continuing search and rescue operations that have continued this week despite the narrowing odds for survival as time elapsed since the quake.

The latest reports of finding and rescuing survivors occurred days after the 7.7-magnitude hit Myanmar last Friday, causing especially extensive destruction in the central cities of Mandalay and Sagaing, and in the junta’s administrative capital, Naypyitaw.