Relief camps cannot accommodate cyclone victims in Bogalay, one of the hardest-hit townships in Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta region, according to one of the leading local news journals Saturday.
About 50,000 refugees out of over 100,000 have been shifted to other relief camps in the nearby lesser-hit township of Maubin.
The cyclone refugees, temporarily housed in Maubin, will be repatriated to Bogalay after some resettlement in the area is carried out and agricultural work is resumed, the Voice said.
With 95 percent of the 69-village township destroyed, Bogalay now has about 50 refugee camps scattered in some monasteries, schools and religious building without roofs, expecting relief aid, it said.
A deadly tropical cyclone Nargis hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3.
According to a latest official death toll released on Friday evening, as many as 77,738 people have been killed in the disaster with altogether 55,917 still missing and 19,359 injured.
Source:Xinhua
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