The junta announced on Saturday that the number of fatalities in Myanmar during Typhoon Yagi had risen to 384, with 89 persons still unaccounted for.
More than a week ago, Yagi ravaged northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, causing landslides and floods that claimed hundreds of lives around the area.
As of Saturday, 384 individuals in Myanmar were dead and 89 people were missing, according to the junta’s information team.
The floods have heaped more misery on a country where millions were already displaced by more than three years of conflict unleashed by the military’s 2021 coup.
Last weekend, the junta issued a rare appeal for foreign aid to help cope with the disaster.
The United Nations has warned that as many as 887,000 people have been affected in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi.
“The most severely affected areas remain in devastation, with widespread destruction to homes, household assets, water sources, and electricity infrastructure,” the UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) said Saturday.
“Roads, bridges, communication networks, schools, public service facilities, religious sites, and crops and farmlands have been severely damaged or completely collapsed,” it added.
