Myanmar junta chief in Thailand for summit amid devastation from earthquakes

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Myanmar's junta leader arrived Thursday in Thailand for a regional summit as his nation battles the aftermath of 7.7 and 6.4 magnitude quakes that hit last week, Thai PBS reported.

Min Aung Hlaing arrived in Bangkok for the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit, where he is expected to address the response to the quakes.

The visit, his first to Bangkok since a 2021 coup, was initially expected to be canceled after Myanmar was hit by the quakes.

Fatalities from the quakes rose Thursday to 3,085, with 4,719 injured and 341 missing, the junta confirmed, according to Myanmar Now.

At least 22 were killed, while 70 others remain missing in neighboring Thailand after a skyscraper collapsed that was under construction, according to Thai PBS.

Thai and foreign search teams have been attempting to reach a cavity in the rubble of a building in Bangkok, where a woman's voice was heard days after the quakes.

Bangkok is hosting the BIMSTEC summit from Wednesday to Friday. Thailand, Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan make up the grouping of seven South Asian and Southeast Asian states.