YANGON, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar top leader Senior-General Than Shwe Sunday traveled for the first time from the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw to the former capital of Yangon hit by severe cyclone early this month, the state Radio and Television reported.

    Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, made the inspection tour a fortnight after the disaster to Nargis-hit Yangon suburban areas of Hlaingtharya and Dagon township (South and North), the report said.

    Greeted by Prime Minister General Thein Sein, who is also Chairman of the National Disaster Preparedness Central Committee, Than Shwe made instructions with regard to relief and resettlement work, the report added.

    Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on May 2-3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and infrastructural damage.

    According to a latest official death toll released on Friday evening, as many as 77,738 people have been killed in the disaster with altogether 55,917 still missing and 19,359 injured.