{"id":53640,"date":"2025-03-31T08:13:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T08:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/death-toll-rises-to-1-700-after-severe-earthquake-in-myanmar\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T07:49:11","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-1-700-after-severe-earthquake-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/death-toll-rises-to-1-700-after-severe-earthquake-in-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 1,700 after severe earthquake in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earthquake struck the Southeast Asian country on Friday, with Mandalay, Bago, Magway, the northeastern Shan state, Sagaing, and Nay Pyi Taw among the hardest-hit regions.<\/p>\n<p>The 7.7 magnitude earthquake was also felt in neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>In Bangkok, the latest official figures report that 11 people have died, 32 are injured, and 83 are missing due to a collapsed building in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>As the search for survivors continues in both countries, friends and relatives anxiously await news of their loved ones, holding onto a faint glimmer of hope after a woman was pulled from the rubble in Mandalay after 30 hours.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-84562 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/2253383dc72b4ef0ae0d13e37ed688df.jpg.png\" alt=\"Rescuers prepare to carry out search and rescue operations after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. About 1,700 people died, 3,400 were injured, and 300 remained missing in the massive earthquake in Myanmar, according to the country&#039;s State Administration Council on Sunday. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-84563 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/57b1be9f57dd488384e02d32053aa01d.jpg.png\" alt=\"Rescuers discuss rescue plans after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. About 1,700 people died, 3,400 were injured, and 300 remained missing in the massive earthquake in Myanmar, according to the country&#039;s State Administration Council on Sunday. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-84564 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/e820943e312c4a8ca31e0aaf01378bf7.jpg.png\" alt=\"Rescuers prepare to carry out search and rescue operations after an earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025. About 1,700 people died, 3,400 were injured, and 300 remained missing in the massive earthquake in Myanmar, according to the country&#039;s State Administration Council on Sunday. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 1,700 people have died, 3,400 were injured, and 300 remain missing following the massive earthquake in Myanmar, according to the country&#8217;s State Administration Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000084565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000084565,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2253383dc72b4ef0ae0d13e37ed688df.jpg.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2253383dc72b4ef0ae0d13e37ed688df.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2253383dc72b4ef0ae0d13e37ed688df.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2253383dc72b4ef0ae0d13e37ed688df.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2253383dc72b4ef0ae0d13e37ed688df.jpg.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/2253383dc72b4ef0ae0d13e37ed688df.jpg.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000084565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53640"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53640"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}