Powerful storm kills at least three people and damages homes, electricity infrastructure and mobile phone masts
Thousands of people have been evacuated to monasteries, pagodas and schools in, seeking shelter from a powerful storm that tore the roofs off buildings and killed at least three people.
Myanmar’s military information office said the storm had damaged homes, electricity infrastructure, mobile phone masts, boats and lampposts in Sittwe, Kyaukpyu, and Gwa townships. It said the storm also tore roofs off of sports facilities on the Coco Islands, about 260 miles south-west of the country’s largest city, Yangon.
More than 4,000 of Sittwe’s 300,000 residents were evacuated to other cities and more than 20,000 people were sheltering in monasteries, pagodas and schools on higher ground in city, said Tin Nyein Oo, who is volunteering in Sittwe’s shelters. Several deaths were reported as a result of the storm. A rescue team from eastern Shan state announced on its Facebook page that it had recovered the bodies of a couple buried when a landslide hit their house in Tachileik township. Local media reported that a man was crushed to death when a tree fell on him in Pyin Oo Lwin township in central Mandalay region.
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