Myanmar's ruling military said on Saturday on state television that the confirmed death toll from the earthquake rose to 1,644, as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it struck near the country's second-largest city. The new total is a sharp rise compared to the 1,002 total announced just hours earlier, underlining the difficulty of confirming casualties over a widespread region and the likelihood that the numbers will continue to grow from Friday's quake. Most of the casualties were in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city with a population of more than a million people and the city closest to the epicentre of the earthquake.
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Published at: 2025-03-29 21:42:46
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