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The rubble of Danok Pagoda after its mysterious collapse
on Saturday
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Twenty Die as Ancient Pagoda Mysteriously Collapses
By MIN LWIN
The Irrawady
Monday, June 1, 2009
Danok Pagoda, an ancient temple thought to contain two Buddha relics, collapsed on Saturday killing at least 20 people and injuring about 150, according to local residents.
It is believed that the casualties were all construction workers and naval personnel who were working to restore the pagoda when it suddenly collapsed.
The incident is immediately shrouded in mystery and superstition with locals and surviving workers telling tales of strange weather, bright red lights and supernatural voices.
“The temple collapsed about 3:10 p.m. while I was loading bricks on a platform around the pagoda,” said a 24-year-old construction worker who sustained only minor injuries.
“The weather suddenly turned very dark,” he told The Irrawaddy. “Then we saw a bright red light rising from the northern end of the pagoda. Then, suddenly, the temple collapsed,” he said. “I also heard a strange haunting voice coming from the direction of the light.”
The 2,300-year-old Buddhist temple is located in Danok Model Village in Dalla Township in Rangoon Division, and is revered for being a site where two Buddha relics are housed.
Restoration work on the 170-foot (52-meter) pagoda had been taking place at the time of the collapse. As well as a construction team, naval personnel from No. 36 Naval Flotilla were working on the project.
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Members of Than Shwe family hoist the pagoda's htidaw,
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The disaster was particularly ill-fated: on May 7, junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe’s wife, Kyaing Kyaing, along with family members and senior military officials’ families, had attended a ceremony at the pagoda and had symbolically placed the hti, a sacred golden umbrella, on top of the pagoda.
Several elderly locals from Danok Model Village said that they believed that the pagoda never welcomed cruel or unkind donors, and always shook when such persons made offerings.
It is said that Kyaing Kyaing places hti on pagodas as an act to avoid bad luck, said a reporter in Rangoon.
Rangoon-based weekly journals were instructed by Burma 's notoriously draconian censorship board not to report the event.
According to some witnesses, they had seen the shadow of the pagoda in the sky on Friday night between 10 pm and 2 am and noticed that no umbrella was visible.
Astrologers in the former capital have said that the incident is a sign that further ill-fated events will happen soon.
According to oral history, Danok Pagoda was built some 2,300 years ago.
According to sources in Rangoon, local residents are angry about the government’s slow rescue effort, which continued until Sunday night. The rescue team was reportedly unable to clear the debris under which five people or more are thought to have disappeared.
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