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Friday March 25, 2011
The earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale hit eastern Burma last Thursday night, felt in the Indochinese peninsula, has left at least 60 dead and 90 wounded, according to official sources of the Asian country.
Most of the deaths occurred in villages in the northeastern area, bordering with Thailand, according to officials of the border town of Tachilek cited by the Thai radio.
The earthquake also caused the collapse of about one hundred buildings, almost all low.
Twenty of the fatalities occurred in the village of Shan state Tarlay located near the epicenter, where several buildings and monasteries collapsed by the earthquake, state television reported today in Burma.
Moreover, Burmese military sources indicated that among the casualties included at least 17 soldiers and civilians who were staying in bars Light Infantry Regiment barracks on the outskirts of Tachilek, one of the steps border with Thailand.
About 40 injured have been treated at the hospital of Tachilek, where the Burmese authorities have established the middle of rescue and relief to the victims.
addition, another woman died in the Thai province of Chiang Rai by a falling wall of his house while he slept.
local television rose to 7 degrees of magnitude in the Richter scale quake which was felt in Bangkok, Hanoi and the southern cities of China, several hundred miles away.
Strong shock caused a temporary blackout in the Thai border town of Mae Sai, and some tourists left their hotels and slept in the open for fear of aftershocks in other northern communities.
According to U.S. Geological Survey, which measures seismic activity worldwide, the epicenter was located about ten miles deep and 82 kilometers north of Chiang Mai, the second largest city in Thailand and one of the main destinations tourist.
The quake occurred at 20:55 local time (13:55 GMT) to 589 kilometers northeast of the former Burmese capital of Yangon and 772 km north of Bangkok.
took place in a remote, mountainous and sparsely inhabited that part of the Golden Triangle drug trade, where the borders of Burma, Laos and Thailand.
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