Scramble to help victims of floods

Hundreds killed in wake of Typhoon Yagi.

- Bago

Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar yesterday as the country's death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge more than doubled and remote areas reported increasing numbers of dead and missing.

Floods and landslides have killed almost 350 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, which hit the region last weekend, according to official figures.

One man told of how he had tried to rescue people with ropes, as flood waters 4m high surged through the hill town of Kalaw in Shan state on 10 September.

"The current was very strong and even some buildings were destroyed," he said, describing pieces of furniture being washed through the streets.