#MyanmarEarthquake: The junta on Saturday morning reports 694 dead, 1670 injured, and 68 missing in the Mandalay Region due to the earthquake. Data collection is still ongoing. The figures are only for #Mandalay Region, although they are probably much higher throughout the country.
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🚨 URGENT APPEAL FOR BURMA 🚨
A catastrophic 7.7-magnitude earthquake has struck Burma(Myanmar), leaving behind a trail of devastation. Entire communities are shattered. Families are grieving. Homes have turned to rubble.
Millions are in urgent need of help.
Here’s what’s desperately needed:
🚑 Life-saving search & rescue teams
🏥 Emergency medical care for the injured
🏕️ Safe shelter for families left homeless
💧 Clean water, food & basic sanitation
⚡ Restoration of lifesaving essential services
But this aid must reach the people directly—not through the military junta.We urge the international community: deliver support through independent, local networks to ensure real help reaches real people, fast.
Every second counts.
Please share. Please pray for Burma. Please act.
Lives—millions of them—depend on it. 💔🙏
#BurmaEarthquake #PrayForBurma #HumanitarianAid #StandWithBurma
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The situation in Mandalay is very dire. We don’t know the exact casualties yet - but in recent years, Mandalay has been hosting internally displaced persons from other regions. Many people are affected. We appreciate support and help from any country.
#MyanmarEarthquake: I will be posting updates, firsthand observations, and thoughts from within the country in this thread. The situation is terrible, with aftershocks continuing, electricity outages in impacted areas, and (almost) no free press on the ground. The majority of local journalists have been exiled following the coup in 2021. With civil war ongoing, there are real concerns about how the junta will respond.
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🇲🇲 🚨Earthquake in Myanmar.
The junta has declared a state of emergency. Despite this, the Myanmar military is continuing to carrying out a nationwide attack, including airstrikes + blocking of aid.
Our team @FortifyRights is monitoring. Please DM if you need info.
Don't forget that many towns and villages have little to no internet access because of the Junta.
They were hit hard too but we just don't hear about it.
#MYANMAR QUAKE AID UPDATE 1:
@AHACentre to send aid Mar 29
India offers aid on Mar 29
Malaysia to send assessment team to Yangon Mar 29 + 2nd batch of 40 personnel on Mar 30
Singapore ready to send @SCDF's search & rescue team to Myanmar
A close friend from #Myanmar shared their thoughts about international journalism just now. (Permission given to share.) I hope correspondents who are flying to/ have arrived in Thailand will take a look 👇 #earthquakemyanmar
If you are covering about Myanmar earthquake, make sure people know that the junta is bombing NaungCho (a town in Mandalay region).
We need to finish this despicable junta.
THEY ARE BOMBING PEOPLE WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE IS HAPPENING.
No exaggeration. Just facts.
EU provides €2.5 million in initial emergency aid for people affected by the earthquake in Myanmar
EU Full statement: https://t.co/Ux2kfdGEU0
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Awful to see such tragic loss in Myanmar when it has already suffered so terribly from the years of war on the people. The fortitude to endure this suffering is incredible. Help must get to the people. Wishing all strength to those in Myanmar. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
More than 140 people are known to have died in Myanmar’s earthquake, but the true toll is surely much higher. Much of central Myanmar is cut off and has also been devastated by war since the junta seized power. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Although the initial figures do not include fatalities from inside Mandalay, the city is known to have sustained some of the worst damage from the quake and emergency workers estimated that “hundreds” had been killed
Read more:
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Union Minister of the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Investment, U Tin Tun Naing and the Special Advisor to the Interim Central Bank, Mr Sean Turnell will hold a press conference on the current economic crisis in #Myanmar on 3rd June 2024, Monday 15:30 Myanmar time.