Damaged Buddha statues surrounded by the debris of a collapsed building in Mandalay, following the devastating March 28 earthquake. When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down -- towering Buddha idols, sky-scraping stupas and the pure-white pagoda where 83-year-old Khin Sein has prayed for most of her life. - AFP
YANGON (Bernama-Xinhua): A total of 653 survivors have been rescued by emergency teams following Myanmar's 7.9-magnitude earthquake as of Thursday, quoting the state-owned daily Myanma Alinn report.
Both local and international rescue teams carried out search and rescue operations. They were also able to retrieve 779 bodies as of Thursday, the report added.
