Heavy rains destroy homes and cropland in Myanmar’s north and west
More heavy rains and floods in Myanmar have forced residents from nearly 20 villages in Sagaing division to be relocated, while the government in hard-hit Rakhine state has started providing financial assistance to farmers whose fields are submerged in water.
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from villages in flood zones in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing division, where about 50,000 acres of land have been submerged after torrential rains fell on the flood-hit area this week, said William France, administrator of the division’s Social Welfare, Relief and Rehabilitation Department.
“About 600 homes have been destroyed in Sagaing division,” he said. “There are many damaged houses as well. We have to relocate about 2,000 households, which will cost about 2 million kyat (U.S. $1,570) per household.”
