Huge earthquake topples buildings in Myanmar, Thailand; several killed

A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar on March 28, Friday. The tremor has killed over 20 people.

A major hospital in Myanmar's capital city Naypyitaw, has turned into a ‘mass casualty area’ after the devastating quake.

In Thailand, 90 people are missing and three died in Bangkok, after a high-rise under construction collapsed in the quake, said the Thai Defence Minister, reported AP.

Both Myanmar and Thailand have declared a state of emergency, after the devastating earthquake sent skyscrapers tumbling, injuring over thousands.


A 30-storey building under construction collapsed in Bangkok, trapping 43 workers, police and medics said.

  • “All of a sudden, the whole building began to move, immediately there was screaming and a lot of panic,” Fraser Morton, a tourist from Scotland, who was in one of Bangkok's many malls, told Reuters.

    “I just started walking calmly at first, but then the building started moving, yeah, a lot of screaming, a lot of panic, people running the wrong way down the escalators, lots of banging and crashing inside the mall,” Morton added.

 

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