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As of Thursday, the death toll across the country from the earthquake has risen to 3,145, with 4,589 others injured and 221 missing, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting the Myanmar Radio and Television.

Myanmar's military is limiting critically needed humanitarian aid for earthquake victims in areas where it sees opposition to its rule, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday. The U.N.

For most of the day, the mood was somber among relatives of dozens of workers missing at the site where a multi-story building collapsed in Bangkok. A volunteer group with sniffer dogs took time away from its grim task of searching the rubble to bring the animals on a visit top help lift their spirit.

The massive destruction across Myanmar after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Southeast Asia is astonishing to see. Yogita Limaye with BBC News, a CBS News partner, reports after getting a rare look inside the country.

United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher will arrive in earthquake devastated Myanmar on Friday, said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he appealed for more international funding and rapid, unimpeded aid access in the country.

The ruling military junta in Myanmar say the death toll after last week's devastating earthquake now stands at almost 2,900 people. The actual death toll is feared to be much higher, with many people still stuck under the rubble in affected cities.

As the road shook beneath him, Ko Zeyer sped past crumbled buildings, buckled roads and gaping sinkholes toward his hometown of Sagaing, the epicenter of the most powerful earthquake to hit Myanmar in a century.