The United Nations' disaster response agency estimates 631,000 people have been affected by flooding across Myanmar.
The United Nations' disaster response agency estimates 631,000 people have been affected by flooding across Myanmar .
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs disaster response agency said so far, an estimated 631,000 people have been affected by flooding across Myanmar.Relief and medical teams have been deployed across the country to help evacuate residents to higher and dryer ground. About 200 relief camps have also opened, housing more than 240,000 people displaced by the floods.
Her fellow villagers are also grieving the loss of loved ones amid the chaos. The last thing Mr Ye Thu remembers is seeing five of his family members fleeing on their cow cart.LOSING LIVELIHOODS Farmer Pyone Maung said that his paddy fields survived two previous floods, but not this time. “All of them were ruined. I’ve lost around 7 to 8 acres of the fields to the floods already,” he said.Communication is a key challenge for humanitarian organisations trying to help communities, said Nadia Khoury, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ head of delegation in Myanmar.
“There is quite a lot of explosive ordinance at the moment in Myanmar. With the rising flood waters, there's concern about those harming more civilians,” said Khoury. IFRC’s Khoury said that the floods that have so far affected Myanmar’s central regions could flow downstream, affecting the south.
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