At least 147 people have been killed and hundreds of people are missing in the wake of a flash flood in central Burma on Thursday, according to media reports and local sources.
Eleven Weekly journal reports that at least 147 people were killed and around 400 families were left homeless in the disaster caused by torrential rains in the town of Pakokku in Magwe Division.
Local residents told The Irrawaddy that at least 300 households were carried away by the heavy flow of water, and around 15,00 victims have sought shelter in nearby Buddhist monasteries.
The deadly disaster comes after an area of low pressure crossed between Burma and Bangladesh over the last two days.
The moderate cyclone over the Bay of Bengal has now moved moved northeast and now lies as a low pressure area near border of India-Burma, according to a weather forecast announced by the Burmese state-run media.
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