Native residents journey by boat on a flooded highway in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. | Picture credit score: AP
The demise toll in Myanmar from Storm Yagi has risen to 74, state media reported on Sunday (15 September), a day after its junta made a uncommon request for international assist.
Flooding and landslides have killed almost 350 folks in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand within the wake of Storm Yagi, which hit the area final weekend, based on official figures.
In Myanmar, flooding has “left 74 folks lifeless and 89 lacking” as of Friday night, World New Gentle of Myanmar reported.
Search and rescue operations have been ongoing, he stated, including that floods had destroyed greater than 65,000 properties and 5 dams, heaping extra distress on the nation the place warfare has raged because the army’s coup in 2021.
The earlier demise toll from the junta was 33, with greater than 235,000 folks displaced, based on figures launched Friday.
Giant tracts of farmland have been flooded in central areas, together with across the sprawling, low-lying capital, Naypyidaw.
There have been reviews of landslides in mountainous areas, however with roads and bridges broken and phone and web strains down, gathering info has been troublesome.
The Sittaung and Bago rivers, which move by central and southern Myanmar, have been nonetheless above harmful ranges on Sunday, state media stated, though water ranges have been anticipated to recede within the coming days.
Myanmar authorities had opened 82 “aid camps” to deal with displaced folks, based on state media.
Thailand’s climate bureau warned on Sunday of extra heavy rains in provinces alongside the Mekong River.
Request for assist
Flooding has added to the distress in Myanmar, the place greater than 2.7 million folks have already been displaced by the battle.
The top of Myanmar’s army junta has made a uncommon request for international assist to cope with flooding, state media reported Saturday.
The army has beforehand blocked or thwarted humanitarian help from overseas.
Final yr it suspended journey authorisations for help teams making an attempt to succeed in round one million victims of the highly effective Cyclone Mocha that hit the west of the nation.
On Saturday, the United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Myanmar and the Worldwide Committee of the Purple Cross (ICRC) advised AFP they have been unable to touch upon the junta’s request presently.
Heavy monsoon rains lash Southeast Asia yearly, however man-made local weather change is resulting in extra intense climate patterns that may enhance the probability of harmful flooding.
Local weather change is inflicting typhoons to type nearer to shore, intensify sooner and linger over land longer, based on a examine printed in July.
Revealed – September 15, 2024 09:21 am IST
