Floods and landslides in Myanmar caused by monsoon rain leave at least five people dead and force around 48,000 people to flee their homes, the relief ministry says, as water levels begin to recede
Residents displaced by flooding take shelter in a monastery compound following monsoon rains in Bago township in Myanmar's Bago region. / Photo: AFP
The Myanmar weather bureau said the Bago River in the south had risen a foot higher on Saturday but was expected to start going down over the coming days. "There are floods every year in Bago but this one is the worst. Normally, the water is around knee- or thigh-deep during the rainy season," Bago resident Soe Min Aung, 23, told AFP, adding that his family had scrambled to buy a boat.
More than 870 people were crammed into a Bago monastery on Friday night and were receiving donated supplies as well as food from monks.
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