Twenty villages in Burma's Magwe Division and large areas of farmland were inundated when water was released from a swollen dam, according to local residents.
A sluice gate at the dam was opened without prior warning, they said.
Houses were destroyed and livestock swept away, said Thein Aung, a resident of one of the inundated villages, Sinphyukyun, in Magwe Division's Salin Township.
Heavy rains accompanying Cyclone Giri caused the Salin River to burst its banks and filled the local dam to capacity. Flood water reached 5ft in some villages, residents said.
The road between Sinphyukyun and Chauk was cut when flood waters destroyed a bridge. Electricity masts in Chauk and many trees were flattened by the cyclone that accompanied the floods.
Ninety percent of the onion fields in Pakoku Township were wiped out by the floods. Preparations of the fields for winter crop cultivation were also disrupted.
Magwe was one of the worst hit regions when Cyclone Giri swept through western Arakan State with winds of up to 80 miles per hour.
Source:http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19857
A sluice gate at the dam was opened without prior warning, they said.
Houses were destroyed and livestock swept away, said Thein Aung, a resident of one of the inundated villages, Sinphyukyun, in Magwe Division's Salin Township.
Heavy rains accompanying Cyclone Giri caused the Salin River to burst its banks and filled the local dam to capacity. Flood water reached 5ft in some villages, residents said.
The road between Sinphyukyun and Chauk was cut when flood waters destroyed a bridge. Electricity masts in Chauk and many trees were flattened by the cyclone that accompanied the floods.
Ninety percent of the onion fields in Pakoku Township were wiped out by the floods. Preparations of the fields for winter crop cultivation were also disrupted.
Magwe was one of the worst hit regions when Cyclone Giri swept through western Arakan State with winds of up to 80 miles per hour.
Source:http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19857
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