MANILA — The wife of a missing overseas Filipino worker in Myanmar on Monday said she hoped that her husband would come out alive from the rubble in Mandalay caused by the powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake that hit the Southeast Asian nation last week.

Kat Cruz-Aragon said her husband Francis Aragon was staying on the sixth floor of an 11-story condominium building in the city of Mandalay when the quake struck on Friday — the same day she last spoke with Francis, who has only been working as a teacher in Myanmar for 10 months.

The couple has two children, aged 4 and 2.

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"Hanggang ngayon missing pa rin siya. Wala pang concrete na information kaming makuha kung nandoon pa siya sa loob ng condo o nasaaan siya ngayon," Kat told TeleRadyo Serbisyo. 

"Praying po kami na sana nakalabas siya nang maayos."

"Kung may pagkakataong pumunta, gusto ko siyang puntahan doon ... para makatulong na mahanap siya doon sa Mandalay."

In a separate interview, Department of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migration Affairs Eduardo de Vega said that Francis and three other OFWs missing in the aftermath of the Myanmar quake were still unaccounted for.

De Vega urged the families of the missing OFWs to contact the DFA for updates and assistance, noting that "anything can happen". 

"We want to see them alive," he added. 

He said the Philippine government sent contingency teams to help with the rescue efforts.

RESCUE HOPES FADING

Hopes were fading Monday of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and neighboring Thailand.

Rescue efforts were less active in the central Myanmar city of more than 1.7 million people early Monday, but conditions are difficult — with temperatures expected to reach around 40 degrees Celsius.

The sticky heat has exhausted rescue workers and accelerated body decomposition, which could complicate identification.

A desperate scene unfolded at a collapsed apartment block in Myanmar's second-biggest city on Sunday evening, when rescuers thought they had saved the life of a pregnant woman trapped under the rubble for more than 55 hours.

They amputated her leg to free her, but after pulling her out she was pronounced dead.

"We tried everything to save her," said one of the medical responders, but she had lost too much blood from the amputation.

Muslim worshipers, meanwhile, gathered near a destroyed mosque in the city on Monday morning for the first prayer of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that follows the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.

Funerals for hundreds of victims are also expected to take place on Monday.

The initial 7.7-magnitude quake struck near Mandalay early Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock.

The tremors collapsed buildings, downed bridges and buckled roads, with some of the worst destruction seen in central Myanmar.

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