The toll from Myanmar’s earthquake has continued to rise, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the country, where hospitals are overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to mount rescue efforts with limited resources.
The 7.7-magnitude quake, one of Myanmar’s strongest in a century, struck the war-torn southeast Asian nation on Friday, leaving around 1,700 people dead, 3,400 injured and over 300 missing, the military government said.
The junta chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, warned that the number of deaths could go up and his administration faced a challenging situation, state media reported, three days after he made a rare call for…