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Beginning on 16 July 2015, unusually heavy monsoon rain fell on Myanmar, causing rivers and creeks to overflow with rainwater and flooding low-lying areas around waterways. By August, the flooding was the worst to affect the country for decades.
(Reuters) - Floods in Myanmar have killed at least 226 people in just over a week, state media reported on Tuesday, after heavy rains brought on by Typhoon Yagi battered the central provinces of ...
About 162 sq km of area around the capital Naypyitaw was flooded on Thursday, according to satellite imagery analysis by the U.N.-backed Myanmar Floods in Myanmar leave 19 dead, displace thousands ...
Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar have killed five people and displaced about 60,000 since mid-July, an official said Friday. The director of the ministry of social welfare ...
Flood in Myanmar. Due to the consequences of climate change, Myanmar is grappling with extreme weather effects and natural disasters. In 2008, cyclone Nargis hit the country, resulting in a death toll of 140,00. [14] Furthermore, the nation suffered from widespread flooding in 2015 especially in Chin, Rakhine, Sagaing and Magway regions.
It dropped heavy rainfall, causing floods in northwestern Myanmar that killed 215 people. [30] May 16, 2013 – A cyclonic storm, operationally named Mahasen and later renamed Viyaru, struck Bangladesh, bringing rainfall and high waves to northwestern Myanmar. Ahead of the storm, nearly 70,000 people evacuated.
The disaster spotlights safety concerns about dams in Southeast Asia after last month's collapse of a hydroelectric dam in neighboring Laos that displaced thousands of people and killed at least 27.
2 July – Thousands of residents are stranded in homes across northern Myanmar due to flooding. [32] 7 July – The Arakan Army seizes control of Thandwe Airport in Rakhine State from the Tatmadaw. [33] 10 July – The Ta'ang National Liberation Army announces the capture of the town of Nawnghkio in Shan State from the Tatmadaw. [34]