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Myanmar
death toll to reach 50,000
BANGKOK, (AFP) - Save the Children
said Tuesday that it expected the death toll from Myanmar’s
devastating cyclone to reach as high as 50,000, after the
government said more than 22,000 people were dead and 41,000
missing.
The aid agency’s Bangkok-based spokesman Dan Collinson
said the rapidly escalating death toll would rise sharply
again in the next few days as victims of Saturday’s powerful
cyclone were located.
“If
at this stage, only four days in, the government are telling
us the numbers are already reaching over 20,000 and there
are 40,000 people missing, I think it could well go higher,”
he told AFP.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if it went as high as 50,000,”
he said.
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