Mandalay: A woman has been rescued alive from the rubble in a collapsed apartment block in Mandalay, 30 hours after a powerful earthquake hit Myanmar, causing dozens to fear trapped during the waste.

The applause called out when Phyu Lay Khaing, 30, was brought out of the Sky Villa ownership apartment by rescuers and carefully removed from the rubble on a stretcher.

Her husband, Ye Aung, who had been waiting for news, embraced her when the stretcher was lifted down.

“In the beginning, I didn’t think she would be alive,” Ye Aung told AFP when he was waiting for his wife to get out of the waste.

“I am very pleased that I heard good news,” said the trader who has two sons with his wife-eight-year-old William and five-year-old Ethan.

As the ambulance drove away to the hospital, in Aung was seen through the window that grabbed his wife’s hand.

A Red Cross official told AFP earlier that more than 90 people could be caught under the remains of the housing block.

The shallow earthquake of 7.7 in size hit Northwest for Mandalay early Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7 force afterhock.

The shakers destroyed buildings, brought down bridges and tense roads over large areas of Myanmar, with massive destruction seen in Mandalay, the country’s second largest city and home for more than 1.7 million people.