Giant floods caused by Typhoon Yagi have killed at least 293 people in Myanmar, according to the latest death toll released by the military junta, while the first shipment of foreign aid arrived in the Southeast Asian country, state media said. Floods in various sectors of the country left behind at least 293 dead, while another 89 people are still missing, the military regime informed. Some 2,700,000 hectares of rice fields and other crops were covered by the waters and over 100,000 farm animals were lost, according to the same source. The previous official count was 268 dead and 88 missing. Typhoon Yagi caused floods and landslides of a magnitude unprecedented in decades in Asia. The dead in total have exceeded 600. Initially, it hit, in the first days of September, the Philippines and southern China, where at least 24 dead and dozens of injured were counted. It then claimed the lives of at least 588 people in four countries: Vietnam, […]
Source: News Beast
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