Myanmar’s junta continues airstrikes, hampering search for earthquake survivors

BANGKOK – Junta airstrikes continued to hamper rescue workers and aid agencies trying to help the survivors of last week’s massive Myanmar earthquake.

Adding to the humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war, civilians displaced by Friday’s magnitude 7.7 quake that killed more than 2,700 people are now forced to shelter from bombs as well.

“From the date of the earthquake, March 28, to yesterday, we’ve found that the military has launched aerial attacks eight times. Even today in the Magway area, we’ve seen them bombing again,” said Moe Htet Nay, an advisor at Nyan Lin Thit Research Group, which monitors the conflict.