Heartbroken parents call out children’s names at earthquake-hit pre-school
About 15 children’s backpacks lie torn apart in the rubble – pink, blue and orange bags with books spilling out of them.
Spiderman toys and letters of the alphabet are scattered among broken chairs, tables and garden slides at the remains of this preschool destroyed by the huge earthquake that hit Myanmar on Friday.
It is in the town of Kyaukse, about 40km (25 miles) south of Mandalay, one of the areas hit hardest by the 7.7 magnitude quake that killed at least 2,000 people.
Kywe Nyein, 71, weeps as he explains that his family are preparing to hold the funeral of his five-year-old granddaughter, Thet Hter San.
He says her mother was having lunch when the devastating earthquake began. She ran to the school, but the building had collapsed completely.
Courtesy: BBC