Aftershocks rattle stricken city

Reduced to rubble: A Buddhist monk walking past the Maharmyatmuni pagoda in Mandalay, central Myanmar. — AP

Residents scoured collapsed buildings searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed at least 1,700 people in Myanmar and at least 17 in neighbouring Thailand.

The initial 7.7-magnitude quake struck near the central Myanmar city of Mandalay early Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock.