Myanmar soldiers help clean up after a typhoon that killed more than 380 people
The Peninsula
Soldiers carted away debris Monday from parts of military run Myanmar where floods and landslides from Typhoon Yagi and monsoon rains earlier this mon...
Soldiers carted away debris Monday from parts of military-run Myanmar where floods and landslides from Typhoon Yagi and monsoon rains earlier this month left more than 380 dead and 89 missing, according to reports in state-run media.
The death toll in Myanmar was higher than the combined total for all the other Southeast Asian countries affected by the devastating typhoon, which killed almost 300 people in Vietnam, 42 in Thailand and four in Laos, as well as 21 in the Philippines, according to the ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance.
Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military government, said during a weekend ceremony to accept cash donations for flood-affected areas that 384 people were killed and nearly 150,000 affected by the floods, the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper reported.
Efforts to bring aid and tally the casualties and damage have been slow in part due to difficulties communicating with the affected areas.
Myanmar is wracked by a civil war that began in 2021 after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Independent analysts believe the ruling military controls much less than half of the country’s territory.
