People line up to receive water in a
cyclone-hit village located near the capital Yangon May 11, 2008.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
YANGON, May 12 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of
Myanmar's cyclone disaster kept rising with 3,480 more people killed, bringing
the total to 31,938, according to a news report of the state radio Monday
evening.
Altogether 29,770 people
remained missing, down from 33,416, the report said adding that the
number of injured went to 1,403. A deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which
occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Yangon, Bago,
Ayeyawaddy, Kayin and Mon on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon
sustained the heaviest casualties and infrastructural damage.
Affected coastal towns in the southwestern Ayeyawaddy
division include Haing Gyi Island, Pathein, Myaungmya, Laputta, Mawlamyinegyun,
Kyaiklat, Phyarpon and Bogalay.
International humanitarian aid has been pouring in
Myanmar since last week with aircrafts carrying various relief materials from
different countries and organizations landing at the airport one after another
for Myanmar's homeless cyclone survivors.
These international aid goods,
along with those donated by different walks of life domestically, have been or
are being successively transported by the Myanmar side to the disaster-hit
Ayeyawaddy delta and Yangon regions as officially reported.
A worker prepares to load relief
supplies from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for the cyclone-devastated
regions of Myanmar at Ostend Airport May 11, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo) Photo
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YANGON, May 11 (Xinhua) -- More aircrafts laden with
relief materials from the international community touched down at the Yangon
International Airport Sunday for the delivery to the cyclone-devastated regions
of Myanmar, state radio and television reported Sunday evening.
These aid supplies included that from the King of
Thailand, International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), Greek, Japan
International Cooperation Agency, Petronas of Malaysia and Pakistan. Full story
YANGON,
May 10 (Xinhua) -- A special aircraft, laden with more relief supplies mainly
medicines, arrived at the Yangon International Airport Saturday afternoon from
China as the country's third batch of aid materials airlifted to Myanmar for
cyclone-hit homeless survivors.
The Boeing 747-400 aircraft, Jade Cargo, brought along 58
tons more of relief materials which also include tents and water purifiers. Full story
UNITED
NATIONS, May 9 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations launched a flash appeal for 187
million U.S. dollars on Friday to aid more than 1.5 million victims of Cyclone
Nargis, which struck Myanmar last week.
The flash appeal would enable 10 UN organizations and nine
nongovernmental organizations to "support the government of Myanmar in
addressing the needs of more than 1,500,000 people affected by the cyclone,"
said a UN statement. Full story
