There are more than 22,000 people
have died, and up to 40,000 have been reported missing, after
the devastating cyclone that struck Burma four days ago.
Aid agencies in the country have reported scenes of utter
devastation, with corpses still littering the rice fields and
desperate survivors without food or clean drinking water, either
without shelter or crammed into broken buildings.
Cyclone Nargis ripped across Burma's agricultural heartland on
Saturday with violent winds that reached speeds of 120mph
(193km/h), destroying buildings and fields, toppling trees and
washing away roads in the vital rice-growing area of the
Irrawaddy delta, and flattening shanty towns and downing power
and phone lines in the sprawling port city of Rangoon, Burma's
former capital and home to 5 million people.
UWT fieldworkers are initiating relief efforts for the cyclone
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Utter devastation with tens of thousands missing
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