As the call for prayer echoed in Saging (city in northern Myanmar) last Friday, hundreds of Muslims were in a hurry to reach the five mosques of the Myanmar downtown for the last prayer of Friday’s Friday, a few days before the Friday. However, at 12:51 local time (06:21 GMT), the 7.7 Richter earthquake occurred. Three mosques collapsed, including the largest, the Moma, killing almost all the faithful who were there. Thousands of kilometers away, in the city of Ma Sot near the border of Thailand, the former mosquito imam Mioma, Soe Nai, felt the earthquake vibration. In the coming days, he learned that about 170 relatives, friends and faithful had lost their lives, most in the mosques. Among them were prominent personalities of the city’s Muslim community. “I think of the people who were lost and the children of the victims, some of them were very young,” he said […]
Source: News Beast
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