(17 Sep 2024)
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Naypyitaw, Myanmar – 17 September 2024
1. Various of people crossing a swollen river, by clinging to damagaed bridge
2. Various of people loading up a boat with emergency supplies to help those affected
3. Various of boat traveling across flood waters
4. Various of people unloading boat
5. Various of damaged homes
6. Wide of people pulling ox-cart through flood waters
7. Wide of man pushing motorbike through flood waters
STORYLINE:
Floods and landslides in Myanmar triggered by last week’s Typhoon Yagi and seasonal monsoon rains have killed at least 226 people, with 77 people missing, state-run media reported Tuesday.
The new figures pushed the total number of dead in Southeast Asia from the storm past 500.
The accounting of casualties has been slow, in part due to communication difficulties with the affected areas.
Footage filmed in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw on Tuesday showed damage to homes and infrastructure with people clinging to the damaged of a bridge as they attempted to cross a swollen river.
Typhoon Yagi earlier hit Vietnam, northern Thailand and Laos, killing almost 300 people in Vietnam, 42 in Thailand and four in Laos, according to the ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance. It said 21 people were killed in the Philippines, with another 26 missing.
The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Monday that an estimated 631,000 people may have been affected by flooding across Myanmar.
There were already 3.4 million displaced people in Myanmar at the beginning of September, according to the U.N. refugee agency, mostly because of war and unrest in recent years, after the military’s seizure of power in 2021.
Heavy rains from the typhoon and the seasonal monsoon brought widespread flash floods to Myanmar, especially the central regions of Mandalay, Magway, Bago and the Ayeyarwaddy Delta; the eastern states Shan, Kayah, Kayin and Mon; and the country’s capital, Naypyitaw.
Some flooded areas have started to see water levels recede but others in the Shan and Kayah states remain critical.
More than 160,000 houses have been damaged and 438 temporary relief camps have been opened for more than 160,000 flood victims, Myanma Alinn reported. The military government announced that nearly 240,000 people have been displaced.
Myanma Alinn said 117 government offices and buildings, 1,040 schools, 386 religious buildings, roads, bridges, power towers and telecom towers were damaged by the floods in 56 townships.
It also said nearly 130,000 animals were killed and more than 259,000 hectares (640,000 acres) of agricultural land were damaged by the floods.
The U.N.’s humanitarian affairs agency said food, drinking water, medicine, clothes, dignity kits, and shelters are urgent needs for the flood victims but alleviation efforts are hampered by blocked roads, damaged bridges and ongoing armed clashes.
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