After the heaviest earthquake in Myanmar for a century, the authorities are now running out of more than 3,300 deaths. Aid organizations warn of diseases.
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The number of dead after the severe earthquake In Myanmar has increased again. State media spoke of 3,354 deaths and 220 missing people. In addition, 4,850 people were injured.
Aid organizations Warning of serious illnesses like cholera. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights accuses the military junta in the Southeast Asian country to limit the delivery of relief goods to communities that are not behind the regime. There was no statement from the military. The auxiliary operations in the earthquake areas are difficult by the consequences of the civil war.
The military had overthrew the elected government around the Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021. Due to the subsequent civil war, more than three million people were sold. Health care was difficult before the earthquake on March 28, many people are threatened with hunger.
According to the UN, more than a third of the population needs humanitarian aid. The earthquake of the strength 7.7 was one of the hardest in Myanmar Since a century. Countless buildings collapsed, entire communities were almost completely destroyed.
