Typhoon death toll reaches 74

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BANGKOK — The death toll in Myanmar from flooding and landslides caused by typhoon Yagi has reached at least 74, with 89 people missing, Myanmar’s state television said Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024.Difficulties in compiling information have raised fears that the number of casualties may be higher.The new official death toll announced by the country’s military government was more than double the 33 reported on Friday, Sept, 13.

The new totals were announced after state media reported that Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of the ruling military council, said that Myanmar was requesting relief aid from foreign countries.Nearly 240,000 people have been displaced, according to the reports. There were already 3.4 million displaced people in Myanmar at the beginning of September, according to the United Nations refugee agency, mostly because of war and unrest in recent years.

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