Inside Mandalay: BBC finds huge devastation and little help for Myanmar quake survivors

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Driving into Mandalay, the massive scale of the destruction from last Friday's earthquake revealed itself bit by bit.

In nearly every street we turned into, especially in the northern and central parts of the city, at least one building had completely collapsed, reduced to a pile of rubble. Some streets had multiple structures which had come down.

Almost every building we saw had cracks running through at least one of its walls, unsafe to step into. At the main city hospital they're having to treat patients outdoors.