Rev. Danny Fisher

“A vehicle carries Myanmar passengers past a collapsed ancient pagoda ‘Danok’ Sunday, May 31, 2009 in Yangon, Myanmar. The 2,300-year-old Myanmar temple building collapsed Saturday while workers were attempting to repair it, killing at least two people and injuring scores more, security officials said.” Photo by Khin Maung Win for the Associated Press.
More bad news from Burma: the Agence France-Presse is reporting that ancient Danok Pagoda has collapsed, killing two people and injuring dozens more. Most of the victims were soldiers “working on reconstruction of the site.”

A police officer said it was not known why the Danok pagoda in Dalla township, sat across a river from Yangon, had fallen suddenly in the afternoon, but the collapse came after two days of heavy rains.

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Military, navy, police, fire brigade and local Red Cross members were stationed at a nearby jetty to help ferry the wounded to hospital.

Yangon General Hospital confirmed 26 injured people had arrived from the pagoda for treatment, but did not elaborate on their injuries.

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Danok Pagoda, famous in Myanmar because it is enshrined with two sacred Buddhist relics, was damaged during Cyclone Nargis in May last year and was recently undergoing reconstruction.