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Burma: Typhoon Yagi leaves 33 dead and more than 200,000 displaced
Burma is under water after Typhoon Yagi hit. The toll is heavy: 36 dead and more than 235,000 displaced.
(France Info)
Burma is under water after Typhoon Yagi hit. The toll is heavy: 36 dead and more than 235,000 displaced.
Residents are forced to flee on elephants in an attempt to reach dry land. Burmese villagers were forced to flee their homes after the deluge caused by Typhoon Yagi.
Some are using makeshift rafts to salvage what they can, others are saving livestock. The army is evacuating villagers. Faced with torrential rains, hundreds of residents have taken refuge in a school. “The water rose so quickly, in some places it was already head-high.“says a Burmese woman.This is nothing like the floods we have already experienced, this one is the worst.” adds another woman.
36 dead and 235,000 displaced
In Burma, floods have already displaced 235,000 people and killed 36. Entire areas have lost communication and running water, worsening the situation in a country already hit by a humanitarian and political crisis.