Thousands of monks in Myanmar mark Buddha's birthday at a gathering organised by the military junta, near a former royal palace in Mandalay. The annual festival is observed on the full moon day. | Mizzima - Myanmar News - English Edition

(Content warning: Death) Monks hold their robes to their faces as they look at a gaping hole in the ground where a dead body lay, as the odour of death permeates the air above the remains of the U Hla Thein monastery in Mandalay. 48 hours after a shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck, destroying buildings across the central Myanmar city, rescuers from Myanmar and China drill through rubble to find buried victims. A coordinator on the site told AFP more than 180 monks were sitting an exam insid

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