[ICYMI] Five dead, 40,000 evacuated as monsoon floods hit Myanmar
Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains have killed five people and forced the evacuation of around 40,000 others in Myanmar, officials said Friday.
In Bago, northeast of Yangon, some residents evacuated early while others were caught off guard by the rapidly rising water. More than 870 people were crammed into a Bago monastery on Friday night and were receiving food from monks and donated supplies.Min Thaw, 66, said the ground floor of his two-storey house was inundated with water and the family had chosen to stay upstairs.Five people have been killed, said Lay Shwe Zin Oo, director of Myanmar's social welfare, relief and resettlement ministry, and the number of people evacuated across the country was expected to top 40,000 on Friday.
"There has been major damage to monsoon paddy crops in Mon and Kayin ," the agency said in a statement, adding that water levels in the Bago, Bilin and Salween rivers were now receding. Myanmar is in the grip of a bloody civil conflict between the junta, which seized power in a February 2021 coup, and civilian militias opposed to its rule.
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