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DARK SECRETS: Prayers and tears for eid in quake hit mandalay | Vintage Vibes

Muslims gather in Mandalay for a sombre first prayer of the Eid al-Fitr festival, three days after a devastating earthquake hit Myanmar and Thailand (Credit: AFP)

Hundreds of grieving Muslims gathered for Eid prayers in the street in Mandalay on Monday, the death and destruction of Myanmar's huge earthquake casting a pall of anguish over the occasion.

The watching women were the first to weep. A tear, a sniffle, a cry. The emotion spread among hundreds of men lined up in the street outside two mosques where 20 of their fellow believers died.

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