(1 Apr 2025)
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Naypyitaw, Myanmar – 1 April 2025
1. Various of rescue team and military officers clearing rubble, searching for survivors
2. Mid of military officers on truck heading to site to conduct clearance operation
3. Wide of damaged buildings
4. Various of people around site of damaged buildings
STORYLINE:
The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, as rescuers continued to search for survivors and started clearing the debris.
The quake could exacerbate hunger and disease outbreaks in a country that was already one of the world’s most challenging places for humanitarian organizations to operate because of civil war, aid groups and the United Nations warned.
The 7.7 magnitude quake hit Friday, with the epicenter near Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay.
It damaged the city’s airport, buckled roads and collapsed hundreds of buildings along a wide swath down the country’s center.
Relief efforts are further hampered by power outages, fuel shortages and spotty communications.
A lack of heavy machinery has slowed search-and-rescue operations, forcing many to search for survivors by hand in daily temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
Myanmar state MRTV reported that the leader of the military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, told Pakistan’s prime minister during a call that 2,065 people were killed, with more than 3,900 injured and about 270 missing.
Relief agencies expect those numbers to rise sharply, since access is slow to remote areas where communications are down.
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