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The devastation was not limited to Myanmar. Eighteen people were killed in Bangkok, hundreds of miles away from the quake’s epicenter.
From WPXI
The epicenter was recorded in Myanmar’s central Sagaing region, near the former royal capital Mandalay, home to around 1.5 million people, as well as multiple historic temple complexes and palaces.
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The country’s death toll from the disaster soared to 1,644.
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