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Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
Coming live from London, this is Owen Bennet Jones.
Mandalay was once a royal capital, complete with a palace and pagodas, monasteries and markets.
A fabled city where craftsmen work with silk and gold leaf.
But it's also a place that's taken a lot of punishment over the years.
Much was destroyed during the Second World War, and now this earthquake.
We'll be going to Mandalay in a moment,
but just now get an update from the Burmese capital, Naypyidaw.
A team sent in from Singapore has been working with Myanmar's fire department to free a man trapped in rubble there for 40 hours.
And one of the Burmese fire department crew describe the operation.
I feel so sorry to see the situation.
All the pagodas and temples, including stairways in my village, have collapsed.
We've lost everything.
I feel so sad to see this kind of sorrowful situation.
Up until now, I've never experienced anything similar to this.
Well, the government is now saying 1700 people have been killed.
And Michael Dunford is with the World Food Program in Naypyidaw.
And a few hours ago, he spoke about the latest casualty figures.