Families of those trapped in rubble of collapsed Bangkok building after earthquake face agonising wait

In Bangkok, at the site where a mass of rubble sits, rescue workers have the machinery they need and the manpower to try and pull people out of the high-rise building that collapsed. In neighbouring Myanmar, they certainly don’t have that kind of capacity and they’re confronting a much larger death toll – one that is rising. And yet, progress at the site where an unfinished building was instantly destroyed has been painfully slow. All day, we watched as cranes tried to shift the concrete and steel around to make way for rescuers to enter. Tide Banluerit, a volunteer rescuer,…