SNAPSHOT: Latest developments after Myanmar cyclone

Tue May 6, 2008 11:01am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Here are the latest developments following Saturday's devastating Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.

HEADLINES

- 22,464 dead; 41,000 missing

- Most people killed in tidal wave produced by cyclone, says Minister for Relief and Resettlement Maung Maung Swe.

- U.S. President George W. Bush urges military junta to accept U.S. disaster response teams, adding the United States stood ready to "do a lot more" to help.

- Government says 5 billion kyats ($4.5 million) set aside in disaster aid. The number of people left homeless by the 190 km (120 miles) per hour winds and storm surge is in the several hundred thousands, United Nations aid officials say.

- Foreign governments and relief agencies promise more than $10 million worth of aid and technical support.

- May 10 constitutional referendum postponed to May 24 in worst-affected areas of Yangon and sprawling Irrawaddy delta. The vote on charter, part of the army's much criticized "roadmap to democracy", to proceed as planned elsewhere on May 10.

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