About a third of Myanmar’s 55 million people already in need humanitarian aid following conflict triggered by February 2021 coup

Floods and landslides in Myanmar triggered by last week’s Typhoon Yagi and seasonal monsoon rains have claimed at least 226 lives, with 77 people missing. The new figures push the total number of dead in Southeast Asia from the storm past 500.

The death toll in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has reached 293, with 89 people missing, the junta said on Thursday, as state media reported the first arrival of foreign aid.