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30 Mar 2025, 22:05 GMT+10
Rescuers prepare to carry out search and rescue operations after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua) YANGON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- About 1,700 people died, 3,400 were injured, and 300 remained missing in the massive earthquake in Myanmar, according to the country's State Administration Council on Sunday.Rescuers prepare to carry out search and rescue operations after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)Rescuers and volunteers carry out disaster relief and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)Rescuers and volunteers carry out disaster relief and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)Rescuers carry out disaster relief and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)Rescuers carry out disaster relief and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)Rescuers carry out disaster relief and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)This video screenshot taken on March 30, 2025 shows rescue operations underway in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. A rescue team of China's Yunnan Province, joined by Myanmar's rescue forces, retrieved an elderly man in earthquake-hit Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw at 05:00 local time on Sunday. (Wang Hao/Yunnan Media Group/Handout via Xinhua)Chinese rescue workers in Myanmar's earthquake zones have been racing against death, braving heat and the smell of dead bodies, to win back more lives within the 72 hours of the best rescue time.Members of the Blue Sky Rescue (BSR) team carry out disaster relief and rescue efforts after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Blue Sky Rescue team/Handout via Xinhua)Members from the Chinese Rescue Team of Ramunion conduct rescue work after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)A member from the Chinese Rescue Team of Ramunion conducts rescue work after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. (Photo by Myo Kyaw Soe/Xinhua)
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