The death toll from Myanmar’s devastating earthquake has risen to 3,354, with 4,850 injured and 220 missing.

State media disclosed this on Saturday, as the visiting UN aid chief hailed humanitarian and community groups for leading the aid response.

The leader of the military government, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, was back in the capital Naypyitaw after a rare foreign trip to attend a summit in Bangkok of South and Southeast Asian nations, where he also met separately with the leaders of Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and India.


According to Myanmar state media, Min Aung Hlaing reaffirmed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the junta’s plans to hold free and fair elections in December.

An Indian foreign affairs spokesperson said on Friday that Modi called for a post-quake ceasefire in Myanmar’s civil war to be made permanent, saying the elections needed to be inclusive and credible.

DAILY POST reports that since overthrowing the elected civilian government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021, the military has struggled to run Myanmar, leaving the economy and basic services, including healthcare, in tatters, a situation exacerbated by the March 28 quake.

According to the United Nations, the civil war that followed the coup has displaced more than 3 million people, with widespread food insecurity and more than a third of the population in need of humanitarian assistance.

United Nations aid chief, Tom Fletcher, posting on X, said humanitarian and community groups had led the response to the quake with courage, skill and determination.

“Many themselves lost everything, and yet kept heading out to support survivors,” he said.

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