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The death toll from a pow­er­ful 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake in Myan­mar jumped to more than 1,000 on Sat­ur­day as more bod­ies were pulled from the rub­ble of the scores of build­ings that col­lapsed when it struck near the coun­try’s sec­ond-largest city.

The coun­try’s mil­i­tary-led gov­ern­ment said in a state­ment that 1,002 peo­ple have now been found dead and an­oth­er 2,376 in­jured, with 30 oth­ers miss­ing. The state­ment sug­gest­ed the num­bers could still rise, say­ing “de­tailed fig­ures are still be­ing col­lect­ed.”

Myan­mar, al­so known as Bur­ma, is in the throes of a pro­longed civ­il war, which is al­ready re­spon­si­ble for a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis. It makes move­ment around the coun­try both dif­fi­cult and dan­ger­ous, com­pli­cat­ing re­lief ef­forts and rais­ing fears that the death toll could still rise pre­cip­i­tous­ly.