Myanmar faces Disastrous floods caused by Typhoon Yagi killing more than 200 lives

Myanmar Floods :More than 220 people have perished in Myanmar as a result of Typhoon Yagi , and approximately
80 more are still unaccounted for, according to the military government.
Over 500 people have died as a result of the typhoon that hit areas of Vietnam, Laos, Thailand,
and Myanmar in early September, according to official statistics.
Typhoon yagi caused extreme flooding and mudslides in Myanmar, destroying entire
communities and resulting in atleast 220 fatalities. The UN issued a warning, noting that
hundreds of thousand of acres of crops had been devastated and that over half a million people
in the war-torn Nation urgently needed basic amenities like food, drinking water, clothing and
shelter.
Over 600,000 acres of crops were damaged with the capital Naypyidaw area suffering the most.
Enormous downpour that Almost completely flooded entire towns occurred in the southern
Bago region. At least 500 people have been killed across Southeast Asia in the wake of Typhoon
Yagi.

Myanmar’s military junta also issued a rare appeal for foreign help at the weekend. According to
UN, nine states and regions were affected by the storm’s devastation, including Mandalay to the
north, Bago to the South, and Magway to the west, all of which are located along the Irrawady,
the main river in Myanmar.
The country’s capital, Naypyidaw, is located in the interior. Shan State in the northeast and the
states of Mon, Kayah, and Kayin to the south were also affected. Since thr army took control of
the nation in early 2021 and overthrew the democratically elected government, a civil war has
raged throughout the Nation.

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Since then, armed opposition the organizations have been fighting the occupying military junta,
resulting in million of people being displaced from their homes and thousands of deaths. The
army has lost control of many regions of the nation throughout the past year or two, leading to
an unstable patchwork of governance.
This has caused a delay in the release of Information regarding casualties, along with inadequate
communication in isolated locations.
According to the UN, these floods are among of the worst floods that Myanmar has seen in
recent memory. Approximately 630,000 people , according to the country’s emergency response
organisation, have been impacted by the flooding. Relief operations have been severely impeded
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Many areas of the nation, particularly Shan State, one of the worst – hit by the flooding and
currently primarily under the hands of a rebel force, are inaccessible to aid organizations.
Sources of BBC Burmese were informed by a volunteer rescuer in the southern part of the state
that Mudslides had buried the entirety of the homes .
” So far, we have gathered more than 100 dead bodies, including both young and old people.
We are still looking for more than 200 of them,” he stated. “This flooding is the worst that has
happened.”
Said a resident in the east of Shan State, Myanmar.
More than 500 miles to the southeast, the situation is almost as bad. ” There us no offer of
international aid. People are in urgent need of food,” Khon Matis, a top official in rebel-
controlled kain state (previously known as Karen state), said. Due to the battle and flooding,
everything is obstructed, making life more difficult for everyone in the nation. Thus, getting in
touch with us is quite challenging.
The only nation to reply to the military junta’s unusual call for assistance over the weekend was
from India, a neighbor of Myanmar. India sent supplies of basic amenities such as clothing, food,
and medication.
Ten deaths were also attributed to Typhoon yagi in Thailand and one in Laos. According to the
authorities, there have been 292 deaths in Vietnam, 38 reported missing, over 230,000 damaged
residencies, 280,000 hectares of devastated crops, and significant damage to major
manufacturing hubs of the nation.

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