Om Kee said, surviving the deluge was a struggle.
“We hired a boat to take some belongings from home, but the boat could not come close enough,” the 64-year-old man told AFP. “So, we had to walk in the water and take whatever we could.” Had to go.”
“We only took some clothes, utensils and plates.”
Le Shwe Zin Oo, director of Myanmar’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Rehabilitation, said five people had died and 48,000 people had been evacuated as of Saturday from Kachin, Karen, Chin, Rakhine and Mon states and Magway and Bago regions .
