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Rescue Hopes Fading Three Days After Deadly Myanmar Quake

Rescue workers carry a victim trapped under the rubble of a destroyed building in Mandalay
Hopes faded Monday of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand.
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