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 last night.
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.