Myanmar National Airlines cancels some flights following quake; buildings and infrastructure collapsed in tragedy

Patients lie on beds in the compound of Phramongkutklao Hospital in Bangkok on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake in central Myanmar. A powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar on Friday, March 28, buckling roads in capital Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing people to flee into the streets in neighbouring Thailand. -- Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham / AFP

YANGON (Reuters): Myanmar National Airlines has cancelled some flights due to the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the country on Friday (March 28), it said on its Facebook page.

Separately, buildings and public infrastructure have been damaged and collapsed as a result of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, with concerns for state of large scale dams, the Red Cross said on Friday.

"Public infrastructure has been damaged including roads, bridges and public buildings. We currently have concerns for large scale dams that people are watching to see the conditions of them", Marie Manrique, Program Coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross said to reporters in Geneva, via video link from Yangon.

"We anticipate the impact to be quite large", she added. - Reuters