Aid workers fear Burma cyclone deaths will top 50,000

Kenneth Denby, in Rangoon
May 6, 2008

Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday’s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster on a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

The official death count after Cyclone Nargis stood at just under half that by 1300 GMT today, at around 22,500 people dead plus a further 41,000 missing. the rest

Burma cyclone: 10,000 killed in ONE town as massive wave is blamed for death toll set to top 60,000