Cyclone cut off Myanmar from the world by Beata Novomeska

There was cyclone in Myanmar, Yangon. The cyclone cause that Myanmar is now cut off from the world. 22,000 people died and many people are missing. The soldiers, from the former capital of Yangon, started to remove damages. Buddhist monks and Catholic nuns helped, too. They started to remove fallen trees with axes and long knives. Some coastal areas were out of reach because of flooding and road damages. Electricity was cut off for nearly all 6.5 million residents of Yangon. The water supply was restored only in a few areas. People had to wait for nine hours or more to buy gasoline and even some fistfights broke out because of long waiting. The help is on the way and already nearly 1 million people who left homeless by the cyclone, got the international aid. Caryl Stern, headmistress of the U.N. Children's Fund in the United States is worrying that aftermath will be worse than cyclone itself. The soldiers removed debris into trucks with power saws and axes. Residents of Yangon were carrying the buckets to bring water to their households. State television was showing the images of a government truck distributing water, but residents hadn't seen any of them. The images of the hundreds helping monks didn't appear in television. On television there were showed mangled trees, roofless houses and damaged electricity poles. The neighboring state Thailand sent aid with plane carrying unload rice, canned fish, water and dried noodles. The White House will send $3 million to help residents of Yangon with initial sum of $250,000. The United States want to send to country people who will help to find died and missing people and stabilize the situation. But they need military junta. Now everything depends on the international help and we can hope that the situation manages to stabilize in the shortest time.

related story: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-myanmar7-2008may07,0,2653839.story

by Beata Novomeska for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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