Toll from Myanmar flooding, landslides rises to 220

KABUL (Pajhwok): Flooding and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi have killed more than 220 people in Myanmar, a media report said on Wednesday.

The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in early September and killed more than 500 people across the region so far, the BBC reported.

It said Myanmar was the most affected and in some areas entire villages were destroyed.

The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 70 others still missing, the military government said.

With hundreds of thousands of acres of crops destroyed, the UN also warned that more than half a million people in the war-torn country were in urgent need of food as well as drinking water, shelter and clothes.

The storm has disrupted telecommunication and internet services, hampering humanitarian operations.

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