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Myanmar Cyclone Casualties Nearly 78,000
The cyclone's official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.
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In the storm-struck town of Kunyangon, around 100 km (60 miles) southwest of Yangon, men, women and children stood in the mud and rain, their hands clasped together in supplication to the occasional passing aid vehicle. "The situation has worsened ...
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T he dead included 159 state service personnel, while a total of 55,917 people, including 58 government employees, remained missing, the report said...The sharp increase of the death toll was confirmed late because the disaster-hit area was so wide ...
Myanmar said Friday more than 133,000 people were dead or missing in the cyclone disaster, nearly doubling the official toll two weeks after the storm left the country's rice-growing south in ruins. The announcement came as Myanmar's military rulers,...
Independent experts however say the actual number is probably far higher, with British officials saying the total dead and missing could be more than 200,000. Meanwhile, torrential tropical downpours lashed Myanmar's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta on ...
The official death toll from Myanmar's devastating May 2-3 cyclone has jumped to nearly 78,000, state television reported Friday, marking an increase of about 35,000 over just a day earlier. The number of missing doubled to 55,917, after being ...
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Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching cyclone-battered regions where millions need food and medicine. New roadblocks manned by armed ...
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