More than 1,000 killed in Myanmar earthquake as search efforts continue

The figure was a sharp rise compared to the 1,002 announced just hours earlier, highlighting the difficulty of confirming casualties over a widespread region and the likelihood that the numbers will continue to grow from Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake. Francesco Capoluongo, from the International Federation of the Red Cross in Myanmar, told the BBC that with more than 18 million people living within the earthquake's impacted area, they expect the death toll to keep increasing. "People are in the jungle and I was out in the jungle when the earthquake hit — it was powerful, but the trees just moved, that was it for us, so we haven't had a direct impact other than that the Burma army keeps attacking, even after the quake," he said.