Hopes faded Monday of finding more survivors in the rubble of Mandalay, where some residents spent a third night sleeping in the open after a massive earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in Myanmar and neighbouring Thailand.

The tempo and urgency of rescue efforts was winding down in the central Myanmar city of more than 1.7 million people, one of the worst affected by Friday's devastating 7.7-magnitude quake.

Overnight, people camped out in the streets across Mandalay, either unable to return to ruined homes or nervous about the repeated aftershocks that have rattled the city over the weekend.

Some had tents but many, including young children, simply bedded down on blankets in the middle of the roads, trying to keep as far from buildings as possible for fear of falling masonry.

More than 1,700 people are confirmed dead across Myanmar, according to the ruling junta, which has declared a week of mourning.

Thousands more were injured and over 300 remain missing.

At least 18 deaths have been confirmed hundreds of kilometres (miles) away in Bangkok, where the force of the quake caused a 30-storey tower block under construction to........

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