Footage captured in Sagaing, Myanmar showed buildings and other infrastructure severely damaged after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked the country Friday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Aid groups in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after an earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, but said the country's civil war could prevent help reaching those in need.

The earthquake death toll in Myanmar is rising fast as rescue and recovery efforts are hampered by badly damaged infrastructure.

A major rebel alliance in Myanmar on Tuesday declared a unilateral ceasefire in its conflict with the ruling military to support an international humanitarian response to last week's devastating earthquake.

But Myanmar took the full force — and is far less well equipped to deal with the aftermath. The state’s capacity has been further eroded since the military toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.

Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,

Burma was hit by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake on Friday, killing more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. Thailand also sustained damage.

When the earthquake that hit Myanmar sent its aftershocks to Thailand, Naruemon Thonglek and Chanpen Kaewnoi didn’t immediately hear it also had collapsed a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok,

Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar's capital Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed at least 2,

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday causing mass destruction. More than 2,700 are dead and thousands more injured.

Rescue workers, sniffer dogs, paramedics and millions of dollars in aid have begun arriving in Myanmar after a massive earthquake ravaged much of the war-torn country.

Just after sunrise on Saturday, a satellite set its long-range camera on the city of Mandalay in Myanmar, not far from the epicenter of Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Southeast

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than three days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, toppling buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok and sending tremors through nearby Chinese provinces.

The death toll in last week’s massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media said Monday, as accounts of some people’s last moments emerged: Two hundred Buddhist monks crushed by a collapsing monastery.

At least 1,700 people have died in Myanmar, and while many countries have sent aid and support, a lack of equipment is severely hampering rescue efforts.

Aftershocks and airstrikes struck Myanmar . More than 1,600 people were confirmed dead across Myanmar over the weekend, and more than 3,000 were injured in the worst earthquake to

More than 2,000 people have been killed and 3,000 injured after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit Myanmar last Friday.

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air