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Friday 25 March 2011

BBC News - Burma quake: More than 50 dead in tremor near Thailand

BBC News - Burma quake: More than 50 dead in tremor near Thailand

Burma quake: More than 50 dead in tremor near Thailand

Hospital patients and staff outside hospital in Chiang Rai, Thailand - 24 March 2011Patients in Chiang Rai, Thailand, were evacuated from a hospital following the earthquake

More than 50 people have died in a magnitude-6.8 earthquake in Burma which struck near the Lao and Thai borders.

It struck at 1355 GMT on Thursday and was centred about 70 miles (110 km) from the northern Thai city of Chiang Rai, the US Geological Survey said.

It was felt 800km to the south in the Thai capital Bangkok, and in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.

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