Death toll in Myanmar earthquake jumps to at least 838

BBC LIVE Summary

At least 838 people have been killed in Myanmar and hundreds more injured following a a 7.7 magnitude earthquake the day before that was also felt in neighbouring countries.

Most of the fatalities are in Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city, and the city closest to the earthquake's epicentre.

Rescue workers are still scrambling to find survivors in Myanmar and in Thailand.

"We are digging out people with our bare hands," a team tells the BBC in Mandalay, not far from the quake's epicentre.

Rescue operations are ongoing at an unfinished high-rise in Bangkok after it collapsed - with around 100 construction workers unaccounted for and six dead, according to local government officials.

Myanmar's junta government has issued a request for international help - a rare plea from an isolated regime heavily sanctioned by Western powers in recent years.

Tight control by Myanmar's army and the continued internal instability from the country's civil war is making it difficult to get accurate information about the disaster.