Toll in Myanmar quake rises to nine; two bridges down
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Yangon - The death toll rose to at least nine in a magnitude-6.8 earthquake that rattled northern Myanmar at the weekend, collapsing two bridges and damaging 34 pagodas and hundreds of houses, the government said Monday.
Sunday's quake, whose epicentre was 52 kilometres north of Shwebo in the Sagaing region, killed nine people, left five missing and injured 57, the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement said.
Non-state media reports put the death toll at 13.
The deaths and most of the damage were near Shwebo.//DPA
