The disastrous floods in Myanmar have killed at least 226 people in just over a week, according to a state media report on Tuesday, after torrential rains brought on by Typhoon Yagi wrecked the central provinces of the war-torn Southeast Asian country.
About a third of Myanmar’s 55 million people are desperately in need humanitarian aid after the constant conflict caused by a February 2021 coup when the powerful military unseated the civilian government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
The hardest hit areas in the flooding include the second largest city of Mandalay, the capital Naypyitaw and some areas of Shan state.
The state media had also said that about 77 people were still missing.
In the Mandalay region alone, at least 40,000 acres of agricultural land were inundated and some 26,700 houses destroyed by the heavy rains and flooding, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have also said that many flood-hit regions were difficult to reach as several roads were destroyed, with the telecoms and electricity networks remaining disrupted.
