A automobile covered by a collapsed building as a result of earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Sunday, March 30, 2025
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Emergency rescue teams on Sunday began trickling into the space of Myanmar hardest hit by a big earthquake that killed extra than 1,600 folk.
Nonetheless their efforts were hindered by buckled roads, downed bridges, spotty communications and the challenges of working in a country in the course of a civil battle.
The 7.7 magnitude quake hit midday Friday with an epicentre discontinuance to Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-biggest metropolis, bringing down scores of constructions and negative different infrastructure like the metropolis’s airport.
Many of Mandalay’s 1.5 million folk spent the evening snoozing on the streets, both left homeless by the quake, which additionally shook neighbouring Thailand and killed on the least 17 folk there, or frightened that the continuing aftershocks could cause constructions left unstable to spoil down.
Folks screamed in the streets on Sunday when one other 5.1 magnitude aftershock hit, nonetheless there possess been no immediate reports of further harm.
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