Undercover in Myanmar: BBC finds earthquake chaos and trauma in secretive military regime | BBC News

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A BBC undercover team has witnessed the horrific trauma left by Myanmar’s earthquake after entering the country and reaching the city of Mandalay which was hit hardest by the disaster.

As Yogita Limaye and her team drove into the city the massive scale of the destruction revealed itself bit by bit. In almost every street they found buildings had completely collapsed, reduced to piles of rubble. At the main city hospital patients are being treated outdoors.

Myanmar's military government has said it's not allowing foreign journalists into the country after the quake, so the BBC team went in without permission. They had to operate carefully because the country has many informers and secret police who spy on their own people on behalf of the ruling military regime.

The BBC team witnessed terrible trauma and suffering with little help for people facing the massive disaster.

Anna Foster presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Yogita Limaye.

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