Eight people have been killed and others are feared trapped after a construction building in Pyi Gyi Tagon township of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city, collapsed at about 1 pm, an eyewitness told the Guardian.
“The whole of Mandalay city was affected by the earthquake. The rescue teams and hospitals are now overrun. We are managing with the resources we have in the neighbourhood,” an eye witness, who asked not to be named, said.
Two people, a middle aged man and an older woman, had died in the building collapse, he added.
Reporting by Esther J, a journalist from Myanmar who writes for the Guardian.
