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YANGON (Eleven News Media/ANN): The flood situation in Myanmar is getting worst. This weekend a local social assistance group said that about 10,000 households have been sent to relief camps due to the ongoing flooding in Bagu City.
According to the Future Star Free Blood and Social Assistance Association, around 10,000 households were sent to relevant relief centres during the weekend.
"About ten thousand households have been sent to relief camps. We helped the people who stayed at home with lunch boxes in the morning and evening," said an official of the Future Star Free Blood and Social Assistance Association.
The flood victims have been sent to a total of thirty relief centres.
"There are many places where there is water. We helped people from homes twenty feet away from Mahamyain by visiting 400 rice boxes in the morning and 400 in the evening," said an official from Future Star Free Blood and Social Assistance Association.
It was reported that the water receded, but there was still about a foot of water.
Pig Hill in Bago City Mazin Maha Myain 20 feet station island The rock group Flooding occurred at the city entrance gate and station.
Earlier, Myanmar's Department of Disaster Management said on Friday that more than 45,000 people were currently in the flood shelters across the country due to floods triggered by surging river levels and intense rainfall in recent days.
Daw Lay Shwe Sin Oo, a director from the Department of Disaster Management under the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, told Xinhua on Friday that five people, including three from Mon State and two from Rakhine State, were reported to have died so far this monsoon in the floods.
The regions and states affected by the natural disasters during the monsoon season included Kachin, Kayin, Bago, Magway, Mon and Rakhine, she said.
The disaster management department has established 109 shelters throughout the country to aid flood victims. The majority of the shelters are located in Mon, Kayin and Rakhine states as well as in Bago Region, it said.
Rakhine State already evacuated more than 10,000 people from 2,146 households to shelters due to flooding and rising river levels, state media reported.
In Kayin State, six out of seven townships have been inundated, leading to the relocation of over 18,000 residents from their homes to shelters. - Eleven News Media/ANN
