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Thailand aid reaches Myanmar
More trucks carrying aid supplies crossed Thailand-Myanmar border in Thailand'...s Mae Sot district on Wednesday (May 21) to help with the relief effort for cyclone victims in Myanmar. The caravan of 10 military trucks carried food and medicines worth 40 million baht ($1.25 million U.S. dollars) to the town of Myawadi in Myanmar. The supplies were transferred to Myanmar's military trucks and the aid will later be handed to Cyclone Nargis victims. The U.N. says up to 2.4 million people are struggling to survive in Yangon and Irrawaddy Delta, where refugees from the storm have been begging for food from relief workers. The U.N.'s World Food Programme (WFP) said the first of nine helicopters granted permission to airlift supplies into the delta will arrive in Yangon on Thursday (May 22). However, private citizens who have been doling out aid on the ground in the delta, where torrential rains are compounding flooding from the cyclone, fretted about where they might land. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is due to arrive in Thailand on Wednesday and go to Myanmar on Thursday, said he hoped junta supremo Than Shwe is among senior government officials he will meet. He plans to visit the country's Irrawaddy delta area which was hit hardest by the cyclone. The official toll is 77,738 people killed and 55,917 missing, one of the worst cyclones to hit Asia in decades. Myanmar's government has estimated the damage at $10 billion.
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