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A man walks past an uprooted tree in
central Yangon on May 4, 2008, a day after the former capital was hit by a
cyclone. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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YANGON, May 5 (Xinhua) -- At least 15,000 people have
been killed in two divisions of Yangon and Ayeyawaddy in a violent cyclone storm
Nargis that swept Myanmar's five divisions and states on last Friday and
Saturday, according to official sources Monday evening.
It is estimated that the casualties in Ayeyawaddy
division's Bogalay alone will exceed 10,000 and at least 1,000 in Laputta in the
same division.
Earlier official figures show that 3,880 people were
killed in Ayeyawaddy division including 20 in Bogalay and excluding Laputta, and
59 in Yangon division.
The sources said that 2,375 people in Ayeyawaddy
division and 504 in Yangon division are missing.
In Haing Kyi island in the Ayeyawaddy division alone,
nearly 20,000 houses were destroyed, leaving 92,706 people homeless, earlier
report said.
The deadly cyclone, which occurred over the Bay of
Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Yangon, Bago, Ayeyawaddy, Kayin and
Mon.
Myanmar has declared the five divisions and states as
disaster-hit regions.
The government has formed a national central
committee for prevention of natural disaster to promptly and effectively carry
out relief and resettlement tasks.
Backgrounder: Chronology of major global cyclones
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- A devastating cyclone that struck Myanmar last Friday and Saturday has killed at least 15,000 people and left 3,000 missing, and the death toll may continue to rise, Myanmar's national television station reported Monday. Full story
Int'l flights to resume in
Myanmar
YANGON, May 4 (Xinhua) -- All international
and domestic flights through Myanmar's Yangon International Airport will resume
on Monday, the State Radio reported in a night broadcast on Sunday.
The planned resumption of the flights was announced after repair was made on
some of the damaged airport infrastructure caused by a violent cyclone Nargis
that swept Yangon on Saturday. Full Story
Chinese FM condoles over Myanmar cyclone
disaster
BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua)
-- Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechion Sunday sent a message of condolences
to his Myanmar counterpart U Nyan Win over the weekend cyclone disaster.
Deadly cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of
Bengal and struck Yangon for over 10 hours from Friday midnight to Saturday
noon, has causes serious damage to the city, killing more than 240 people. Full Story
Daily life partly resumes in
cyclone-hit Myanmar former capital
YANGON, May 4 (Xinhua) -- A minor part of the daily life
started to resume in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon Sunday, the first day in
the aftermath of the deadly cyclone Nargis strike the country for 10 hours from
Saturday night to Saturday noon.
Yangon residents began to move about mostly on foot as few
number of public buses could run as such huge vehicles find impossible to fight
their ways through roads densely blocked by the Nargis-triggered fallen trees
and its long and thick branches. Full Story
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