Thai minister still hopeful of finding quake survivors

Manila Bulletin

Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister said he was still hopeful of finding survivors in the rubble of a building that collapsed during Friday's earthquake, but said that so far on Sunday none had been found.  Anutin Charnvirakul was visiting the site to check on progress as rescue and recovery teams used heavy equipment to pull apart the debris under which workers were buried at a construction site close to the city’s popular Chatuchak Market.  The 7.7 magnitude quake hit midday Friday with an epicenter near Mandalay in neighboring Myanmar, bringing down scores of buildings and killing at least 1,600 people.

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00:00I cannot say that I feel good at all, but we are working around the clock and the only

00:16determination that we have in common is to be able to fight the survivors.

00:26Is hope fading now?

00:29We're still hopeful.

00:31But time is going on.

00:33That's why we are working very hard.

00:36We haven't stopped since it collapsed and we have been able to bring many survivors

00:47out along with people who have deceased.

00:54When was the last time there were survivors of the attack?

00:57I think yesterday.

01:00But not today?

01:01Today we haven't found any survivors.

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