CNI News

19 September 2024

The Indian government would provide aids such as clothes, dried foods and medicines to the flood victims in Myanmar where there damages due to Typhoon Yagi, released the Indian Embassy to Myanmar. 

As India showed unity with flood victims, it is sending its aids to Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos.

And then, the Indian government sent 10 tons of aids for reconstruction including dried foods, clothes and medicine for Myanmar flood victims by ship INST Satpura of the Indian Navy, reported the embassy. 

In Myanmar, because of Typhoon Yagi, after it was continuously raining heavily, the water levels of rivers and creeks were so high that 56 townships from the Naypyidaw Council Territory, Magway, Mandalay, Ayeyarwady, Bago Regions, Kayah, Shan, Mon, and Karen States were flooded.

While seeing a flood was taking place in Myanmar

So, 2,116 houses were damaged and 158,373 houses were sunk. 

The government opened 438 rescue camps for flood victims and had to move 42,858 households and 163,780 people. Due to flood disaster, according to the figures collected until 4:00 pm 16th September, 226 Myanmar people were killed and 77 people were lost.

In the same way, 117 offices and departmental buildings, 1040 schools, 386 religious buildings, some roads and bridges, lamp posts and telecommunication towers were destroyed, reported the SAC. 

Moreover, 128,344 animals such as cattle, pig and goat were killed and 643,081 cultivated acres were sunk.