Southeast Asia has been shaken by a powerful earthquake that has destroyed buildings in the second-largest city in neighboring Myanmar and brought down a tower that was being built in Bangkok.

According to Thailand’s National Institute of Emergency Medicine, dozens of workers were rescued from beneath the skyscraper’s debris, and at least one person was killed.

As water poured down from an elevated pool at a luxury hotel, witnesses in Bangkok reported that individuals, many of them were hotel guests dressed in bathrobes and swimming costumes, fled out onto the streets in a panic.

The epicentre was roughly 17.2 kilometers away from Mandalay, a 1.5 million-person city in Myanmar.

Rows of injured people lay outside the emergency room of the 1,000-bed hospital in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar. Some were in shock, while others were writhing in pain.

Their corpses were plastered in dust and covered in blood as a steady stream of casualties were transported to the hospital in automobiles, pickups, and stretchers.

Rescue personnel have reached the location of a building that was still under construction in Bangkok when it collapsed this morning owing to an earthquake.

Reporters were informed by Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai that 81 workers were trapped inside and that at least three workers had been killed.

Thailand’s capital has been declared a disaster area following a strong earthquake in neighboring Myanmar, Bangkok city hall has said.

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