International humanitarian relief aid continued to pour in Myanmar Thursday for the third day from Singapore, Italy, Bangladesh, India and Thailand, the state radio reported in the afternoon.
Arriving at the Yangon International Airport with their respective aircraft were items of tent, mosquito net, power generator, medicine, water purifier, dry potato and pork, instant noodle, biscuit, cloth, zinc sheet, hammer and nail, and candle, the report said.
On Wednesday, seven countries -- Japan, Bangladesh, Laos, China, Thailand, India and Singapore had send their relief supplies for Myanmar's storm survivors, especially in the country's Ayeyawaddy delta region devastated by the cyclone.
According to state media Thursday, these international relief supplies as well as those from Yangon donated by different walks of life are being successively airlifted to the disaster-hit regions, using five Myanmar military helicopters and plying between the Ayeyawaddy delta and Yangon.
The state media also said regular water transport to such cyclone-torn coastal areas of Pathein, Mawlamyinegyun, Bogalay, Einme and Kyunkon in the Ayeyawaddy delta region has resumed since Wednesday afternoon.
Meanwhile, main roads in the biggest city of Yangon are basically cleared and partly opened to traffic. However, many small roads are packed with fallen trees together with electric poles, electric cable and telephones.
As most of the trees, which collapsed in the cyclone storm, have been cut one after another to clear roads, the Yangon city now appears as a burned forest city under sun without much shelter.
The deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bayof Bengal, severely hit last weekend five divisions and states -- Yangon, Bago, Ayeyawaddy, Kayin and Mon, covering such coastal towns in southwestern Ayeyawaddy division as Haing Gyi Island, Pathein, Myaungmya, Laputta, Mawlamyinegyun, Kyaiklat, Phyarpon and Bogalay, and the biggest city of Yangon, sustaining the heaviest ever casualties and damage.
Source: Xinhua
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