(Translated staff post from the KHIT THIT MEDIA on 31 March 2025.)
All three mosques in the Bone-Old Islamic Village, the
population of about ten thousands, were flattened by the March-28 Mega-Quake,
and only about 200 corpses had been recovered as more than one thousand
expected to perish in the rubbles.
The devastated village is in the Amarapura Township
of Mandalay Division in Middle Burma. Right next to the quake’s epicentre
Sagaing City, the unfortunate Islamic village has nearly 1,000 still trapped
inside the collapsed mosques.
Mega-Quake struck at 52 minutes after the noon on March-28 and Yetkandaw-North, Yetkandaw-Middle, and Thanbayarchan mosques all collapsed, and the piles pf rubbles trapped the bodies of more than 1,000 muslims praying inside those mosques.
So far, more than 200 corpses were retrieved and immediately buried in small mass graves for five bodies each, despite their Islamic tradition strictly requires individual burials. Bodies of all trapped women from the top levels were coming out first, and bodies of the men trapped on the ground levels were still under the rubbles as the village doesn’t have heavy machinery to dig their bodies out.
