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Res­cue work­ers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rub­ble of a build­ing in Myan­mar’s cap­i­tal on Tues­day, but hope was fad­ing of find­ing many more sur­vivors of the vi­o­lent earth­quake that killed more than 2,700 peo­ple, com­pound­ing a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis caused by a civ­il war.

The fire de­part­ment in Naypy­itaw said the woman was suc­cess­ful­ly pulled from the rub­ble 91 hours af­ter be­ing buried when the build­ing col­lapsed in the 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake that hit mid­day Fri­day. Ex­perts say the like­li­hood of find­ing sur­vivors drops dra­mat­i­cal­ly af­ter 72 hours.

Death toll num­bers fore­cast to in­crease