The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2000, state media said overnight, as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred Buddhist monks crushed by a collapsing monastery.
Fifty children killed when a preschool classroom crumbled. Seven hundred Muslims struck while praying at mosques for Ramadan.
The quake could exacerbate hunger and disease outbreaks in a country that was already one of the world’s most challenging places for humanitarian organisations 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…