YANGON: The death toll in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has mounted to 384, with 89 people still missing, the junta on Saturday said.
Yagi hit across northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar more than a week ago, triggering landslides and floods that have killed hundreds of people across the region.
In Myanmar, 384 people were killed and 89 were missing as of Saturday, said the information team of the junta.
The floods have caused more misery in a country where millions were already displaced by more than three years of internal conflict unleashed by the military’s 2021 coup. Last weekend, the junta issued an appeal for foreign assistance to help cope with the natural disaster.
The United Nations has warned that Typhoon Yagi has affected as many as 887,000 people in Myanmar.
“The most severely affected areas remain in devastation, with widespread destruction to homes, household assets, water sources, and electricity infrastructure,” the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) said Saturday.
“Roads, bridges, communication networks, schools, public service facilities, religious sites, and crops and farmlands have been severely damaged or completely collapsed,” it added.
