Miracle rescues offer hope, days after deadly Myanmar earthquake

Tin Maung Htwe, director of a 40-year-old primary school, said he had managed to survive by drinking his own urine for five days not far from the epicentre of the earthquake in Burma.

In Pictures: Six days after the earthquake in Myanmar, the scale of the disaster is still unclear. In some major cities, relief efforts are underway…

"I Am Free": Myanmar Teacher Pulled Out Of Rubble 5 Days After Earthquake

Entombed under his hotel bed for five days in the debris, two things enabled teacher Tin Maung Htwe to survive Myanmar's devastating earthquake: old school lessons and his own urine. The primary school headmaster was on a training course in Sagaing, the closest place to the epicentre, when the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck. The 47-year-old remembered a decades-old school lesson to shelter under a bed if the world starts to shake. "As soon as I…

Miracle rescues offer hope, days after deadly Myanmar earthquake

Two survivors have been pulled from under the rubble of collapsed buildings in Myanmar, more than five days after the country was struck by a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake.

Lessons and liquids: buried alive in Myanmar's earthquake

Entombed under his hotel bed for five days in the debris, two things enabled teacher Tin Maung Htwe to survive Myanmar's devastating earthquake: old school lessons and his own urine.

Myanmar miracle earthquake rescue

Two men have been pulled alive from earthquake rubble after being trapped under the ruins of a Myanmar hotel for five days.