Cyclone death toll nears 4,000 in Myanmar, state radio says

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

YANGON, Myanmar - Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday.

Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, early Saturday with winds of up to 120 mph. The cyclone blew roofs off hospitals and schools and cut electricity.

On Sunday, the government had put the death toll countrywide at 351 people.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone;_

[jpak]

1. kick

:(

[ananda]

2. Is a cyclone..

.. pretty much a hurricane?

[agingboomer]

3. Yes - its what they call a hurricane in that part of the world n/t

[bluesmail]

4. here come the disaster capitalists

usurping beach property. (gasp)

[maddezmom]

5. Myanmar believes cyclone killed at least 10,000: diplomat 10 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/wl_nm/myanmar_dc;_ylt=AjhD_6gKjZW_yWYqreKo8P4Bxg8F

[uppityperson]

7. This reminds me of after the tsunami. k&r for Burma.

When the numbers rose every time I checked. Poor poor Burmese.

[slampoet]

6. kick on

[Doctor Cynic]

8. So is the military which shoots protesters going to help civilians this time?

[Feron]

9. How incredibly sad.n/t

[Doctor_J]

10. Malloy just played a clip of Pickles blaming this on "state-run radio"

not getting the warnings out in time. Sounded like she was under orders to make this into some sort of failure of "big government". Anyone else offended by this WH trying to score political points on the backs of 1000's of dead & displaced Asians? Is the reason we lost a few thousand Louisiannans because of the state-run MSM here?