Mandalay University's main building collapses in Myanmar's earthquake

YANGON, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's powerful earthquake on Friday caused the collapse of Mandalay University's main building, which later caught fire, according to the Information Team of the State Administration Council on Saturday night.

As a result, matriculation exam answer papers for the 2024-25 academic year, which had been sent to the university for processing, were burnt and destroyed.

Those included 280,940 answer papers of 46,944 students from Mandalay region, 43,827 papers of 7,311 students from Sagaing region and 52,189 papers of 8,699 students from Kachin state.