Over 2,000 dead in Myanmar, Thailand after quake; search for survivors intensifies. Rescuers freed four people, including a pregnant woman and a girl from collapsed buildings

As deaths mount, some volunteers complained of being blocked by Myanmar’s military from reaching a rebel stronghold that was badly hit.

STORY: Rescuers pulled a woman from the wreckage of a hotel in Myanmar days after a massive earthquake in the Southeast Asian country last week that killed at least 2,000 people.China's Xinhua news agency reported that several others were freed from collapsed buildings in Mandalay,

More than 1,600 people have died following the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, with locals in some areas telling the BBC they had been left to dig through rubble for survivors with their bare ...

A total of 1,007 people have been found dead and 2,389 injured following the earthquake in Myanmar, the country’s military council confirmed on Saturday, March 29, per BBC News. There are reportedly 30 people that remain missing.

Myanmar’s location between two tectonic plates – the India and Eurasia plates – places it at particular risk of quakes.

Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,000 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impoverished, war-torn country in years.

B ANGKOK — The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it struck near the country's second-largest city.