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AI and satellites help aid workers respond to Myanmar earthquake damage

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast Asian county’s second-largest city

The Independent UK

‘We were the lucky ones’, says Burmese student after home damaged in earthquake

Aung Kaung Myat was unable to contact his parents for several hours when he first heard the news of the earthquake on Friday.

Evening Standard

Myanmar earthquake death toll surpasses 2,000 amid worsening humanitarian crisis

Myanmar, where an ongoing civil war began in 2021, was already one of the most challenging places in the world for aid organisations to operate in.

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Tears In Taiwan For Relatives Hit By Myanmar Quake

As images of destroyed buildings in earthquake-hit Myanmar flashed across her television screen in Taiwan, Yang Bi-ying could only weep for her family there.

International Business Times

Prayers And Tears For Eid In Quake-hit Mandalay

Hundreds of grieving Muslims gathered for Eid prayers in the street in Mandalay on Monday, the death and destruction of Myanmar's huge earthquake casting a pall of anguish over the occasion.

International Business Times

Monday briefing: How a devastating natural disaster has been made worse by Myanmar’s brutal civil war

In today’s newsletter: With time running out to find survivors of Friday’s earthquake, Myanmar’s ruling junta continues air strikes and controls aid distribution

The Guardian - UK

Myanmar earthquake: woman trapped for days pulled alive from the rubble

Brief moment of relief as rescue workers carry a woman from the rubble of a hotel in Mandalay after a five-hour operation

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Rescue Hopes Fading Three Days After Deadly Myanmar Quake

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 neighbouring Thailand.

International Business Times

Volunteer rescuers race to find survivors two days after Myanmar earthquake

Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killed

The Guardian - AU

Aftershocks Rattle Myanmar As Rescuers Search For Survivors

Rescuers braved aftershocks to scour the devastated city of Mandalay for survivors on Monday, after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.

International Business Times

‘Wherever I looked I saw collapsed buildings’: Myanmar quake rescuers and medics struggle with size of task

After two days there are still not enough teams to find bodies or sufficient equipment to sift through the debris

The Guardian - UK

Smell of death ‘fills the air’ near epicentre of Myanmar earthquake

Bodies trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Sagaing and Mandalay cities are decomposing in Myanmar’s heat.

Al Jazeera

Foreign aid rushed to earthquake-hit Myanmar as about 1,700 killed

Rescue teams and supplies arrive to help the impoverished country cope with the deadly earthquake.

Al Jazeera

Tears, Prayers In Search For Monks Trapped By Myanmar Quake

Covered in dust and resembling a Buddhist statue, the face of a dead monk emerges from the rubble of a religious examination hall in Mandalay flattened by Myanmar's devastating earthquake.

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Euronews

More than 1,700 people die after Myanmar earthquake

Myanmar continues to be hit by a string of aftershocks, the latest being a 5.1-magnitude earthquake that struck on Sunday morning. This follows a 7.7-magnitude quake that hit on Friday leaving at least 1,700 people dead.

Evening Standard

Myanmar earthquake: Death toll passes 1,600 as rescue efforts hampered by civil war and collapsed infrastructure

At least 1,644 people have so far been reported dead and over 3,400 missing

The Independent UK

Quake death toll in Myanmar tops 1,600 and expected to rise as rescue work slowed by damage and war

Emergency rescue teams on Sunday began trickling into the area of Myanmar hardest hit by a massive earthquake that killed more than 1,600 people

International Business Times

Aftershocks Rattle Mandalay As Rescuers Search For Survivors In Myanmar Quake

Residents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,600 people in Myanmar and at least 11 in neighbouring Thailand.

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The Guardian - UK

‘No one came’: Myanmar volunteers dig with bare hands to save earthquake victims

The military junta is calling for foreign aid but agencies and rescuers must navigate crumbling roads, an overwhelmed health system and ongoing fighting

International Business Times

Fears And Hopes At Collapsed Mandalay School

Rescuers clambered into the wreckage of the Wisdom Villa Private High School on the outskirts of Mandalay on Saturday until a jammed door blocked their passage.

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of Muslims feared dead in Myanmar earthquake, mosques destroyed

More than 50 mosques across the country sustained damage when the magnitude 7.7 quake struck.

Al Jazeera

Lack of equipment stalls race to save earthquake survivors in Myanmar

Devastation is widespread in Mandalay where survivors are still waiting for help from military government.

The Independent UK

Myanmar earthquake survivors dig through rubble with bare hands as death toll soars past 1,600

True scale of disaster caused by 7.7-magnitude earthquake may take days to emerge as countries around the world pledge support

International Business Times

'We Need Aid': Rescuers In Quake-hit Myanmar City Plead For Help

Exhausted, overwhelmed rescuers in Myanmar's second-biggest city pleaded for help Saturday as they struggled to free hundreds of people trapped in buildings destroyed by a devastating earthquake.

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar earthquake death toll rises to 1,644 amid race to find survivors – as it happened

Myanmar’s military rulers have called for ‘any country, any organisation’ to help as concerns grow over how rescuers will reach affected areas. This blog is now closed.

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