Quake deaths climbing

Reaching Out: Myanmar Junta Head to Attend Summit to Seek Region's Help

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The head of Myanmar's junta was expected to travel to Bangkok yesterday for a regional summit, as the death toll from his country's devastating earthquake passed 3,000. Min Aung Hlaing will join a Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) gathering – the seven littoral nations of the Bay of Bengal – where he will raise the response to Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake that has flattened buildings across the country.

Many nations have sent aid and teams of rescue workers to Myanmar since the quake, but heavily damaged infrastructure and patchy communications – as well as the country's rumbling civil war – have hampered efforts.