Earthquake destroys 80 per cent of Myanmar’s Sagaing township

Mizzima

According to the Committee Representing Sagaing Hluttaw, the March 28 earthquake destroyed about 80 per cent of the Sagaing township’s urban areas. It also said that emergency aid is needed, and relief efforts are in progress in areas under the control of the National Unity Government (NUG).

“As the earthquake occurred near Min Won Valley, the two-storey buildings, monasteries and other religious structures in the surrounding villages collapsed. The two-storey brick buildings were mostly damaged,” Zaw Hlaing Thein, secretary of the Committee Representing Sagaing Hluttaw said on 30 March.

According to the list compiled as of 30 March morning, the earthquake has caused at least 18 deaths and 80 injuries in Sagaing township’s NUG-controlled areas.