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USA Today |
"This is not just a disaster, it is a complex humanitarian crisis layered over existing vulnerabilities,” said Alexander Matheou, Red Cross regional director for Asia Pacific.
Reuters |
In the chaos of Friday's earthquake, a Thai woman gave birth to a baby girl on a rolling bed in a hospital as it was being evacuated.
BBC |
Four more people have been pulled from rubble nearly 60 hours after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 1,700 people in the south-east Asian country.

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