[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index
][Thread Index
]
Over 100 feared dead in floods
- Subject: Over 100 feared dead in floods
- From: ausgeo@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:32:00
August 14, 1997
BANGKOK POST
BURMA
Over 100 feared dead in floods
Tak, Mae Sot
More than a hundred people are feared dead and several others missing in the
floods sweeping over villages along Pegu Division and the Mon state of Burma
over the last two weeks, a border source said yesterday.
Heavy rains hit Burmese towns late last month, causing the Salween, Sittaung
and Jaing rivers to overflow and inundate hundreds of villages along river
banks.
Trade has been hit hard by the flooding and the transportation of goods from
Myawaddy to Rangoon only resumed on Tuesday after a halt of a week, sources
said.
Six bridges along Pegu division and Mon state were reportedly damaged by the
floods, they added.
A Burmese trader from Moulmein who crossed the border to Mae Sot said
yesterday that train services on the Pegu-Paung route have been halted for
over two weeks.
He said he was stuck in Rangoon during the floods and took boats and buses to
get here when the water levels started to reduce.
"Thousands of families living along the three rivers are left homeless. Over
two hundred people went missing and a hundred more are believed to have been
killed in the flood," he said.
However, no official report of flooding casualties from Burmese authorities
has been released.