# More than one-thousand people have been killed in Myanmar and thousands more injured following a 7.7- magnitude earthquake that was also felt in neighbouring countries. The majority of the fatalities are in Myanmar’s second largest city, Mandalay, the area closest to the earthquake’s epicentre. In neighbouring Bangkok, Thailand, rescue operations are ongoing after an unfinished high-rise collapsed – with around 100 construction workers unaccounted for and six dead.
Death toll in Myanmar earthquake rises to more than a thousand