At least 2,719 people have been confirmed dead in the aftermath of Friday's massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, a government official told local media on Tuesday. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said during a televised broadcast that another 4,521 people were injured, according to The Associated Press and Reuters.

Myanmar’s ruling military junta has been accused of blocking the delivery of aid to victims of Friday’s earthquake, which killed at least 2,700 people and devastated the country. Locals and humanitarian groups said recovery efforts had been hampered by the regime setting up military checkpoints and requiring relief workers to gain official

The head of Myanmar’s military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, told a forum for relief donations in Naypyitaw that 2,719 people have now been found dead, with 4,521 others injured and 441 missing, Myanmar’s state MRTV television reported.

People bathed and cooked next to a river in Myanmar's second largest city, finding shelter in flimsy tents on Tuesday as the city grappled with the aftermath of a deadly earthquake.

The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar's second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed more than 1,

Aid groups in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after an earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people.

Some 700 Muslim worshipers attending Friday prayers were killed when mosques collapsed, said a member of the steering committee of the Spring Revolution Myanmar Muslim Network.

The North Carolina-based Evangelical humanitarian aid charity Samaritan s Purse is dispatching an emergency field hospital to Myanmar following a catastrophic 7 7-magnitude earthquake that has

Volunteers gathered to help, some coming in from other cities, to do whatever they could in the city near the epicenter of the powerful quake.

The earthquake’s epicenter was near the country’s second-largest city Mandalay, and so far the military-run government has reported 2,065 people killed, more than 3,900 injured, and 270 missing.