Flood relief efforts underway in Kyonpyaw District

 

Search, rescue and rehabilitation efforts are underway for flood-affected residents in Kyonpyaw District, Ayeyawady Region, following flooding caused by a breach in an embankment in Laymyethna Township.

Ayeyawady Region Chief Minister U Aye Kyaw met district officials to review the flooding situation, evacuation centres, crop damage, relief supplies and transport routes. He visited flood shelters in Kyonpyaw and Yekyi townships, where he encouraged residents and provided rice, cooking oil, drinking water and other food supplies. He inspected flooded bridges and roads, rice stockpiles and a water purification machine installed to provide clean water to flood-affected residents, according to the report.

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