Philippine Embassy searches for 4 missing teachers in Myanmar quake

The Philippine Embassy in Yangon stated on Wednesday that it has no information about four missing Filipinos following last week's magnitude 7.7 earthquake.

Embassy officials are actively searching for the four teachers who are feared trapped in the collapsed Sky Villa building in Mandalay City, one of the worst disaster sites in Myanmar.

A team from the Philippine Embassy is coordinating with local authorities and hospital staff to check cadavers being retrieved and establish linkages with Mandalay Hospital for proper identification.

Despite challenges posed by advanced decomposition and lack of facilities, the embassy has requested local rescuers to extract tissue samples first if a Filipino is identified.

The DFA remains hopeful that the four teachers will be found alive while an emergency response team has been deployed in Myanmar and is setting up operations in Naypyidaw as organized by the local government.

As of Wednesday, over 2,700 people have died in the earthquake, with more than 400 individuals still missing, including the four Filipinos who remain unaccounted for.