In the area of Inle Lake, northeast of the capital, many people died when homes built on wooden stilts in the water collapsed in the earthquake, the government's official Global New Light of Myanmar ...

Before the outbreak of civil war in 2021, the lake, less than 40 kilometres south of the city of Taunggyi, was a well-known tourist destination, with hundreds of stilt houses along the lakeshore.

many people died when homes built on wooden stilts in the water collapsed in the earthquake, the government's official Global New Light of Myanmar reported without providing specific figures.