Incredible moment woman gives birth to baby while 7.7-mag earthquake hits Bangkok hospital as quake death toll rises
THIS is the incredible moment a woman gives birth just moments after the massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Bangkok.
Footage shows Kanthong Saenmuangshin, 36, surrounded by doctors and nurses trying to evacuate her from hospital on a rolling bed.
Around 1,700 have been killed in the natural disaster, but there was at least one new life that the earthquake brought on.
The Thai woman went into labour following the shaking and gave birth on the way out of the building.
Kanthong had gone into the hospital for a checkup when the quake hit and was being escorted down stairs when her water broke.
She said she was worried she would give birth on the stairs and said: “I was telling my baby, don’t come out yet.
“Then I was put on a hospital bed and was surrounded by a lot of medical staff where I just gave birth right then and there. It was all a shock to me too.”
In the clip, Kanthong can be seen lying on her back on the bed with her legs wide open as she is rolled through the hospital hallway.
One nurse holds up a light while other nurses held up a sheet to try and protect her modesty in the chaotic scene.
Doctors stand around trying to delivery the baby in the trying circumstances.
Amid the chaos in the Thai capital and the speed of Kanthong’s labour, her husband could not make it in time for the delivery.
The pair have not named the baby yet, but they have given it the nickname ‘Mink’.
Others in Bangkok saw tall apartment buildings shaking and water spilling to the ground from a roof-top pool.
Brit tourist Paul Vincent was at a streetside bar in Bangkok when the quake struck.
He said: “Everybody came on the street… there was a lot of screaming and panicking, which obviously made it a lot worse.
“There was people crying in the streets… the panic was horrendous really.”
A high-rise under construction also collapsed burying a number of people.
Terrifying footage showed the moment a 30-storey skyscraper in Bangkok came crashing down – with screaming workers seen running for their lives in a cloud of debris and dust.
The newborn in the earthquake comes as the smell of decaying bodies permeates the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay on Sunday.
People worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after the massive earthquake struck.
Countless are still buried in buildings that have collapsed.
Relief efforts have been hampered by buckled roads, downed bridges, spotty communications and the challenges of operating in a country in the midst of a civil war.
A 5.1 magnitude aftershock Sunday afternoon prompted screams from those in the streets, and then the work continued.
Many of Mandalay’s 1.5 million people spent the night sleeping on the streets, either left homeless by the quake or worried that the continuing aftershocks might cause structures left unstable to collapse.
Aftershocks have been felt in India and China – and the US Geological Survey has issued a red alert for deaths and damage.