Mandalay, Myanmar
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In nearly every street we turned into, especially in the northern and central parts of the city, at least one building had completely collapsed, reduced to a pile of rubble.
From BBC
A major rebel alliance in Myanmar on Tuesday declared a unilateral ceasefire in its conflict with the ruling military to support an international humanitarian response to last week's devastating eart...
From U.S. News & World Report
With the figure likely to grow, another alliance of rebel groups that had made substantial territorial gains against the regime also announced it would not initiate offensive operations for a month.
From Bloomberg L.P.
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Agence France-Presse on MSNLike 'living in hell': Quake-hit Mandalay monastery clears away rubbleBare-handed monks slowly pick away the rubble that was once the wall of a historic Buddhist monastery in Mandalay, its exposed side a searing reminder of the deadly earthquake that rocked the city five days ago.
Residents in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, speak of despair and sleepless nights since last week's earthquake.
Rescue workers at the U Hla Thein monastery said 270 monks were taking a religious exam when the quake hit, decimating the monastery. 70 were able to escape, but 50 have already been found dead and 150 are still unaccounted for.
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Asian News International on MSNIndian Army's Field Hospital continues life-saving efforts in Myanmar's MandalayThe Indian Army's Field Hospital under Operation Brahma continues to make life-saving efforts in Myanmar's Mandalay. As of Wednesday evening, 145 patients have been treated, with 34 admitted for further care.
Volunteers gathered to help, some coming in from other cities, to do whatever they could in the city near the epicenter of the powerful quake.
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The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed more than 1,
A local in Mandalay tells Sky News that many of the buildings in the city are "collapsed or inclining", adding: "There are some bodies, some dead bodies, that still remain and other destruction."
BEIJING -- The first batch of aid supplies from the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) arrived in Mandalay, the epicenter of Myanmar's recent 7.9-magnitude earthquake, on Wednesday, according to the RCSC.