Rescuers used diggers and bulldozers to clear mud and debris after a landslide buried more than a dozen houses in south-eastern Burma! 😰
Rescuers used diggers and bulldozers to clear mud and debris after a landslide buried more than a dozen houses in south-eastern Burma.
At least 34 people were killed and several residents have been reported missing after the village in the Paung township was hit. Locals were evacuated to relief camps after torrential downpours triggered flooding earlier this week.Nearly 90 members of staff from local fire stations along with 35 other rescue personnel evacuated residents from the village.
They were also joined by 10 police officers from Mon state in searching for people still missing in the flood. United Nations chiefs said more than 7,000 people had been displaced by the monsoon which hit Mon State, near the Thai border, earlier this week.Houses and a school in other townships had been washed away while there were also reports of villages being submerged and roads being blocked.Over 12,000 people in Burma have been displaced in the last week meaning more than 38,000 are now in evacuation centres, the UN said.
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