Volunteers gathered to help, some coming in from other cities, to do whatever they could in the city near the epicenter of the powerful quake.

Critical infrastructure - including bridges, highways, airports and railways - across the country has been damaged, slowing humanitarian efforts.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mohamed Riyas, acting country director for Myanmar at the International Rescue Committee, about relief efforts in the wake of a devastating earthquake.

Foreign rescue teams and supplies ... “We have received no aid, and there are no rescue workers in sight.” In Mandalay, a rescue worker told Reuters most operations were being conducted ...

Myanmar's military rulers have kept journalists out since the devastating earthquake, so CBS News' partners at the BBC went undercover to reveal the scale of the disaster.

A massive earthquake that rocked Myanmar could exacerbate hunger and disease outbreaks in a country already wracked by food shortages, mass displacement and civil war, aid groups and the United

In Mandalay, residents said they were upset to ... and its people have died by the thousands in fighting the junta. Foreign aid, he said, would most likely end up benefiting the military regime ...

A local in Mandalay tells Sky News that many of the buildings in the city are "collapsed or inclining", adding: "There are some bodies, some dead bodies, that still remain and other destruction."

A shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake was followed shortly by a 6.4-magnitude aftershock, causing widespread destruction in Myanmar. Buildings were toppled, roads were torn apart and the iconic Ava bridge collapsed. The colonial-era bridge was built 91 years ago by the British Empire over the Irrawaddy River.