Irrawaddy Delta Disaster Victim’s Story

A feature today on Time.com shows a boy carrying a jerican of water in Bogalay, in the Irrawaddy Delta and the background looks like a bomb hit the town. Like hundreds of villages across the delta, almost all the bamboo shacks in Mya Hen’s hamlet of Phya Chaung, near the town of Bogalay, collapsed under the force of a massive tidal surge triggered by the storm. No one is sure of the death toll, but if other nearby villages are any indication, at least half of the residents perished. “I was lucky to have survived,” Mya Hen says. “But now I have nothing left. No food, no water, no home. What will I do?’.”

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