{"id":51850,"date":"2025-03-31T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/welsh-teacher-thought-she-was-going-to-die\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:17:39","slug":"welsh-teacher-thought-she-was-going-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/welsh-teacher-thought-she-was-going-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh teacher thought she was going to die"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Isabelle Willis felt the tremor after the earthquake in Myanmar hit her apartment in Bangkok, Thailand<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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A Welsh teacher whose apartment walls started to crumble after an earthquake in south-east Asia said she believed she was about to die. <\/p>\n

Isabelle Willis, 26, from New Quay, Ceredigion, has been teaching English in Bangkok, Thailand, for six months and felt the tremor after the earthquake in Myanmar on Friday.<\/p>\n

More than 1,700 people are thought to have been killed and 3,400 injured, following the powerful 7.7 magnitude quake.<\/p>\n

“It started banging. I could hear terrifying noises. The building cracking, things falling,” said Ms Willis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Willis was at her apartment at the time and said she started to feel “dizzy” before things got “really bad”.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I thought ‘I need to get out of here’,” she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Isabelle Willis has been teaching English in Bangkok for six months <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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She said she ran out of the room, and as she looked at her wall, she could see a crack, adding: “I could see people running, sprinting down the stairwell. <\/p>\n

“I was desperate to get out.<\/p>\n

“I was like, ‘wow, this is how people die’. I thought ‘this is it’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Willis said as she was leaving her building she saw a crack on her wall<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The magnitude 7.7 quake was felt in Myanmar, Thailand and south-west China.<\/p>\n

In Bangkok, at least 18 have lost their lives, according to authorities, and many are missing after a high-rise building collapsed.<\/p>\n

Ms Willis, along with the other residents, managed to leave the building safely with just minor injuries. <\/p>\n

She is staying at a hotel until her accommodation is made safe.<\/p>\n

“It was just a surreal experience,” she recalled.<\/p>\n

“Some kids were crying… people were just holding each other, taking care of the elderly too, we had a massive shock.<\/p>\n

“I’m devastated for the people in Myanmar too. <\/p>\n

“It’s just awful.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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