About 3,400 persons were injured due to quakes that struck the country’s Mandalay city on Friday.
The toll in the earthquake that struck central Myanmar on Friday morning has crossed 1,700, the Associated Press quoted the country’s government as stating on Monday.
While more than 300 persons are missing, about 3,400 were injured, said government Spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun.
The earthquake, of magnitude 7.5, struck at 11.50 am local time near central Myanmar’s Mandalay city on Friday morning. Mandalay is the country’s second-largest city by population.
A second quake, an aftershock, measuring 7.0 struck at 12.02 pm, according to India’s National Center for Seismology. The United States Geological Survey said the magnitude of the first quake was 7.7 and the second was 6.4.
Both quakes were shallow with a depth of 10 km.
