As the road shook beneath him, Ko Zeyer sped past crumbled buildings, buckled roads and gaping sinkholes toward his hometown of Sagaing, the epicenter of the most powerful earthquake to hit Myanmar in a century.

Volunteers gathered to help, some coming in from other cities, to do whatever they could in the city near the epicenter of the powerful quake.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Mohamed Riyas, acting country director for Myanmar at the International Rescue Committee, about relief efforts in the wake of a devastating earthquake.

Critical infrastructure - including bridges, highways, airports and railways - across the country has been damaged, slowing humanitarian efforts.

A massive earthquake that rocked Myanmar could exacerbate hunger and disease outbreaks in a country already wracked by food shortages, mass displacement and civil war, aid groups and the United

Myanmar's military rulers have kept journalists out since the devastating earthquake, so CBS News' partners at the BBC went undercover to reveal the scale of the disaster.

Foreign rescue teams and supplies ... “We have received no aid, and there are no rescue workers in sight.” In Mandalay, a rescue worker told Reuters most operations were being conducted ...

In Mandalay, residents said they were upset to ... and its people have died by the thousands in fighting the junta. Foreign aid, he said, would most likely end up benefiting the military regime ...