World Health Organization issues flash appeal for $8m of emergency support amid frantic search for survivors
News agency AFP has spoken to people gathered for Eid prayers in the street in Mandalay on Monday.
Locals said that the minaret of the Sajja South mosque in the Muslim neighbourhood of Mawyagiwah crashed to the ground in the quake, killing 14 children and two adults. Earlier a Myanmar Muslim organization said more than 700 worshipers had been killed when the quake struck durign Friday prayers.
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