Myanmar Update: Death, Flooding, Destruction
Filed under: News
Yesterday I posted some of the first pictures out of Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis passed through. They came from the city Yangon, where people were clearing roads and drying out their possessions.
Judging from news reports, the scene in Yangon was far from representative. Officials are describing damage on the scale of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, with at least 22,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless after the weekend storm.
Full read: AFP report on ReliefWeb
10:18 AM ET | 05- 6-2008 | permalink

