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3.9 magnitude earthquake strikes off Myanmar

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake shook Myanmar on Thursday, with no immediate reports of injuries. The nation's location at the convergence of four major tectonic plates, particularly the active Sagaing Fault, places it at significant risk for seismic events. Major cities like Sagaing, Mandalay, Bago, and Yangon, home to nearly half…

The Times of India

Myanmar military air strike on a tea shop kills 18 watching a football match on TV

An air strike by Myanmar’s military on a tea shop in Sagaing region has killed at least 18 civilians and wounded 20 others

The Independent UK

At least 23 killed in airstrike on Buddhist monastery in Myanmar

A jet fighter is believed to have dropped a bomb on a building in the village’s monastery

The Independent UK

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Myanmar military junta fighter jet shot down near Mandalay, rebel group claims

Sagaing region is a stronghold of armed resistance to the ruling military junta, which seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Euronews

At least 17 killed in junta air strike on school in Myanmar, reports say

Sagaing region, near the border with India, has been a stronghold of armed resistance and the military in recent years has stepped up air strikes against the local pro-democracy People's Defence Forces.

Euronews

An airstrike in central Myanmar kills up to 22 people at a bombed school, reports say

Witnesses and independent media reports say that an airstrike by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central Sagaing region has hit a school

The Independent UK

Could an earthquake shift the balance in Myanmar’s civil war?

Aftershocks of Myanmar’s devastating earthquake add new dimension to country’s four-year-long civil war.

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Rains add to misery in quake-hit Myanmar as death toll rises to 3,471

UN says ‘traumatised and fearful’ survivors in Myanmar are in need of food, water and shelter.

Al Jazeera

Civilians Act To Bring Aid To Myanmar Earthquake Victims

A 21-year-old shopkeeper with little money of her own, Ei Hay Mar Hlaing has delivered more help to victims at the epicentre of Myanmar's devastating earthquake than most national or international aid organisations.

International Business Times

Lessons And Liquids: Buried Alive In Myanmar's Earthquake

Entombed under his hotel bed for five days in the debris, two things enabled teacher Tin Maung Htwe to survive Myanmar's devastating earthquake: old school lessons and his own urine.

International Business Times

Scramble For Food Aid In Myanmar City Near Quake Epicentre

Crowds jostled through traffic and braved scorching heat on Wednesday in a race to secure vital aid in a central Myanmar city ravaged five days ago by a deadly earthquake.

International Business Times

‘It’s beyond description’: Bodies pile up in mass graves as Myanmar grapples with quake toll

In Sagaing, the epicentre of the quake, the stench is becoming unbearable as a country wracked by civil war bears the burden of burying thousands killed in Friday’s disaster

The Guardian - AU

‘Wherever I looked I saw collapsed buildings’: Myanmar quake rescuers and medics struggle with size of task

After two days there are still not enough teams to find bodies or sufficient equipment to sift through the debris

The Guardian - UK

Smell of death ‘fills the air’ near epicentre of Myanmar earthquake

Bodies trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Sagaing and Mandalay cities are decomposing in Myanmar’s heat.

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The Guardian - UK

Fears for Bagan’s towering Buddhist temples after Myanmar earthquake

City is close to Sagaing faultline and monuments were significantly damaged after the last earthquake in 2016

The Guardian - UK

What caused Myanmar and Thailand earthquake and how big was it?

Death toll rises in both countries after tectonic plates rub sideways against each other along Sagaing fault

International Business Times

First Deaths Confirmed As 'Mass Casualty' Quake Hits Myanmar, Thailand

The shallow 7.7-magnitude tremor hit northwest of the city of Sagaing, central Myanmar, and was followed minutes later by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock, toppling buildings, rupturing roads and collapsing the well-known Ava bridge.

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Myanmar Military Airstrikes Kill 17 Civilians, Including Children

Airstrikes by Myanmar's military result in the tragic loss of civilian lives, including children, raising concerns about human rights abuses.

The Hindu

India reminds Myanmar to return to ‘federal democracy’

India urges Myanmar to return to path of federal democracy; MEA expresses deep concern over conflict in Chin, Shan and Sagaing provinces. India supports people-centric socio-economic developmental projects, including connectivity projects, for benefit of people of Myanmar.

The Hindu

Stay away from conflict, Myanmar refugees told

A large number of Kuki population of Kuki Chin and Sagaing regions of Myanmar have taken refuge in Mizoram and Manipur after the February 1, 2021 military coup.

Bangkok Post

For children in exile, school's a lifeline

It's 9am, before classes start, and children's shouts and squeals of laughter fill the air around three cottages in a school compound, a hilly area not far from the centre of Mae Sot, a northwestern city on the border with Myanmar.

The New Daily

Up to 100 people killed in Sagaing area after Myanmar military airstrike

Myanmar's military says it has carried out a deadly attack on a village gathering organised by its insurgent opponents this week.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Myanmar Military Justifies Deadly Attack on Insurgent Ceremony

Myanmar's military said it carried out a deadly attack on a village gathering organized by its insurgent opponents this week and if civilians were also killed it was because they were being forced to help the "terrorists". Up to 100 people, including children, were killed in Tuesday's air strike in…

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