Pregnant woman and girl among rescued survivors three days after earthquake hit Myanmar and Thailand

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Survivors were pulled out of rubble in Myanmar and signs of life have been detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2000. Rescuers freed four people, including a pregnant woman and a girl, from collapsed buildings in Mandalay, the city in central Myanmar near the epicentre of Friday’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. Chinese rescue workers in red helmets carried one survivor, wrapped in a metallic thermal blanket, through heaps of shattered concrete and twisted metal...