{"id":70644,"date":"2025-04-01T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-unmarked-graves"},"modified":"2025-04-01T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:52:53","slug":"its-beyond-description-bodies-pile-up-in-mass-graves-as-myanmar-grapples-with-quake-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70644","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s beyond description\u2019: Bodies pile up in mass graves as Myanmar grapples with quake toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sagaing, the epicentre of the quake, the stench is becoming unbearable as a country wracked by civil war bears the burden of burying thousands killed in Friday\u2019s disaster<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/myanmar-earthquake-death-toll-unmarked-graves\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sagaing, the epicentre of the quake, the stench is becoming unbearable as a country wracked by civil war bears the burden of burying thousands killed in Friday\u2019s disasterDays after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through central Myanmar, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,263,82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-earthquakes","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70645,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70644\/revisions\/70645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}