More than 80,000 people in more than twenty cities were affected by floods : Myanmar

According to the list of the Ministry of Military Council Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement, Kachin, Kachin, due to the flooding of the Irrawaddy and Chindin Rivers. Sagaing not curved Mandalay 21 cities in Bago and Irrawaddy are flooded and more than 85,000 people (about 86,000) are facing flood risk.

The Military Council newspaper reported that 107 schools in eight townships along the banks of the Irrawaddy River were closed due to flooding.

"The people fleeing the war are staying near the river bank. The tents they built were all buried. "

In the city of Myitkyina, Kachin State, at least 17 people died due to floods in the first week of July, a resident told RFA, who did not want to be named for security reasons.

"I heard that the death toll is currently 17 people. There are a lot of people who don't have owners and can't be rescued. I have to say that there are hardly any camps opened by the government."

He said that even though Myitkyina City's current water level has receded, it still needs help and relief.

Sagaing Division According to the residents of Wet Lek Township, the parrots of Westha Village and Saakku Township. Big river Hindhama village The huts of about 8,000 war refugees in nearly 14 villages, including the village, are also flooded.

A resident of Sangkou, who did not want to be named for security reasons, said that if war refugees live in tents on the banks of the Irrawaddy River, they will face floods.

"The people fleeing the war are living near the river bank. The tents they built were all submerged. We moved to Sagaing to escape the war and drowned in the flood. Because they had to avoid the war, they faced more suffering and less support."

Wetlet Township has been affected by the flood for about ten days, and the elderly and children are in need of emergency assistance, he said.

At the confluence of the Irrawaddy and the Chindin River, Magwe Division, On July 15, the People's Administration of Resa Sulu township announced that about 130 villages were flooded.

Ko Wai Kyi, head of the People's Defense Forces in Resa Tulu Township, told RFA that although the current convoys are not coming, they have to evacuate due to the flood.

"We have had to avoid the danger of war since the beginning. Currently, the column is flooded, so we cannot enter the column. When we cannot enter, we cannot avoid the danger of war. At the moment, we have to avoid the danger of flood. When we avoid the danger of flood, we cannot avoid the places close to the enemy, such as camps, highways, and the army. There is a tendency to gather in big two-story monasteries in our catchment areas, two-story schools, and so on."

It is said that water is also entering the neighborhoods in the south and east of the city.

Similarly, in Sallingyi Township of Sagaing Province, rice and betel fields have been damaged by the flood, said a resident of Sallingyi.

"More than two-thirds of our village is flooded. We are planting rice this season, and there will be more betel farmers next. The current flood situation also affects the villages on the banks of the river. Many of our villages on the east side of the Pathein - Monywa road are affected."

It is said that about twenty villages along the banks of the Chindin River were flooded, and on July 11, a local resident drowned in the riverside Gem Village.

An official of the Military Council Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement Ministry told RFA that more than three hundred relief camps have been opened in flood-affected areas.

He also said that up to July 15th, more than two thousand kyat (20,263,4760 kyats) of money and food items have been provided to the flood-affected people. The total number of people killed due to floods across the country is not yet known.

The Directorate of Meteorology and Hydrology of the Military Council announced this morning that 21 cities across the country have exceeded the danger level and are still experiencing floods.