Myanmar junta chief to join regional summit in person, Thailand says

FILE PHOTO: Myanmar's military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends a press conference following talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, March 4, 2025. Pavel Bednyakov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, whose country was struck by a devastating earthquake last week, will attend a regional summit of mostly South Asian leaders in Bangkok on Friday, Thailand's foreign ministry said.

The trip will be a rare visit by Min Aung Hlaing to a Southeast Asian country since seizing power in 2021 coup that led to a civil war. He is currently in Myanmar, where the death toll from Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake, the worst to hit the country in more than a century, rose to 2,886 on Wednesday.