‘It’s beyond description’: Bodies pile up in mass graves as Myanmar grapples with quake toll

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Days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through central Myanmar, upending buildings, pagodas and thousands of lives, the grim reality of the disaster is setting in. At a cemetery in Sagaing, a city in central Myanmar that lies at the epicentre of the quake, the bodies are starting to pile up. “The corpses have been emitting a foul smell since yesterday. Today, it’s beyond description. The bodies can’t be removed from the city yet, and rescue teams haven’t arrived,” says Aye Moe, 20, a Sagaing resident. Officially, the death toll from the quake has passed 2,000. Unofficially, many fear it...