Yangon, March 29 -- Children and families in Myanmar need urgent humanitarian support after the strongest earthquake in a century [1] struck the country, causing widespread damage and casualties with many people still unaccounted for, Save the Children said.

The earthquake's epicentre lay just outside Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, and with a magnitude of 7.7, it was the strongest earthquake recorded anywhere in the world since the quake that hit Turkiye and Syria in 2023. Myanmar has now declared a state of emergency across six regions[2], with the death toll rising by the hour as the search for survivors continues.[3]

In neighboring Thailand, where a state of emergency has also been declared, Save the Children is assessing t...