Whole Towns Wiped Out as Burma Death Toll Soars

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050708N.shtml
Ian MacKinnon and Julian Borger, of The Guardian: "The toll from the Burmese cyclone disaster continued to rise yesterday as the government announced that 22,000 were dead and 41,000 missing, while aid agencies warned many more could die if assistance could not be delivered quickly. Relief workers who penetrated the worst-hit areas in the rice-growing belt of the Irrawaddy delta south-west of the main city, Rangoon, talked of hundreds of bodies strewn about the paddy fields. The Burmese government identified 15 townships in the Irrawaddy delta that had suffered worst. Seven of them had lost 90 to 95% of their homes with 70% of their population dead or missing. One community, Bogalay, was said to have been wiped out, with 10,000 people feared dead."