The BBC’s Burmese Service has been speaking to people and volunteers in Myanmar’s town of Mandalay, near to where a dangerous 7.7 scale earthquake struck on Friday.
The death burden from the collapse and a series of waves has climbed past 2, 700, with 4, 521 injured and thousands still missing, according to Myanmar’s military commander.
” We also have hope”, one man told the BBC as he waits to find out what happened to his missing sisters, who have been trapped in wreckage since last week. He said 11 decks of a building collapsed on them.