Myanmar cyclone death toll rises to 15,000

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath in military-ruled Myanmar killed 15,000 people, including 10,000 in one town, Foreign Minister Nyan Win said on state-run TV on Tuesday.

Nyan Win said the government was still assessing damage in remote villages in the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta area, struck by the cyclone on Saturday, including the Southeast Asian country's biggest city of Yangon.

(Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Darren Schuettler)