Woman pulled alive from collapsed building 91 hours after Myanmar earthquake

The earthquake’s epicentre was near the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay

Rescuers work through the rubble of a collapsed building following Friday’s earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar (AP Photo)

Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 2,000, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a bloody civil war.

The Myanmar fire department in the Naypyitaw said the woman was successfully pulled from the rubble early on Tuesday, 91 hours after being buried when the building collapsed in the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that occurred at midday on Friday.