‘It’s beyond description’: Bodies pile up in mass graves as Myanmar grapples with quake toll

People stand by a collapsed fire station after a strong earthquake, near its epicentre, in Sagaing, Myanmar. Photograph: Reuters

Days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake ripped through central Myanmar, upending buildings, pagodas and thousands of lives, the grim reality of the disaster is setting in.

At a cemetery in Sagaing, a city in central Myanmar that lies at the epicentre of the quake, the bodies are starting to pile up.