Damage in Mandalay as the death toll in last week’s earthquake passes 2,700

(2 Apr 2025)
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Mandalay - 2 April 2025
1. Various of damaged pagodas situated near U-Bein Bridge, in Amarapura township
2. Wide of building that partially collapsed
3. Various of people clearing debris
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The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar continued to rise passing 2,700, as people attempted to clear the debris from damaged and collapsed buildings.

The head of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2,719 people have now been found dead, with 4,521 others injured and 441 missing.

Myanmar has been wracked by civil war and the earthquake is making a dire humanitarian crisis even worse, with more than 3 million people displaced from their homes and nearly 20 million in need even before it hit, according to the United Nations.

The earthquake hit a wide swath of the country, leaving many areas without power, telephone or cell connections and damaging roads and bridges, making the full extent of the devastation hard to assess.

Most of the reports so far have come from Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, which was near the epicenter of the earthquake, and Naypyitaw, the capital.

The casualty figures are widely expected to rise.



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