Singapore Civil Defence Force works with Myanmar rescuers for eight hours to save trapped quake victim


The operation, which took about eight hours, was conducted with members of the Naypyitaw Fire Service Department. Singapore Civil Defence Force/Facebook via ST/ANN

SINGAPORE: The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF), in Myanmar to aid search and rescue efforts following the massive earthquake that struck the country on March 28, rescued a man trapped underneath a collapsed three-storey building on March 30.

The operation, which took about eight hours, was conducted with members of the Naypyitaw Fire Service Department, the SCDF said in a Facebook post on March 30.

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