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Myanmar toll crosses 22000, 41000 missing [1]

Myanmar's government raised its death toll from Cyclone Nargis on Tuesday to nearly 22,500 with a further 41,000 missing, nearly all of them from a storm surge that swept into the Irrawaddy delta. Of the dead, only 671 were in the former capital, Yangon, and its outlying districts, state radio said. The rest were in the vast swamplands of the delta.

Publication Date: 
07/05/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
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Cyclones [3], UN [4], Myanmar [5], Thailand [6]
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