Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar’s southern areas has displaced more than 14,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the country’s biggest cities.
Local residents wade through a flooded road near Shwe Maw Taw pagoda in Bago, about 80 kilometers northeast of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmars southern areas has displaced more than 10,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the countrys biggest cities, officials and state-run media said Monday.
Bago township recorded 7.87 inches of rainfall, its highest level in 59 years, Myanmar’s Meteorological Department said Sunday. Rain or thundershowers was forecast for across the country until noon on Tuesday. A 55-year-old resident of Bago’s Pan Hlaing ward interviewed by phone said the floodwaters were as much as six feet deep in her neighborhood, and her family members were living on the second and third floors of their house.
Reports in the state-run Myanmar Alinn newspaper on Monday said that trains that departed from Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city in central Myanmar, and from southern Mawlamyine township were halted en route. Scheduled departures from Yangon, the biggest city in the country, were canceled after rail lines were flooded by the rapid flow of water from mountain torrents and the spillage from dams in the Bago region.
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