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Agence France-Presse

The death toll from a landslide triggered by monsoon rains in eastern Myanmar rose to at least 41, an official said on Saturday, as emergency workers continued a desperate search through thick mud for scores more feared missing.
Myanmar’s monsoon season brings an annual torrent of heavy downpours, which often leaves tens of thousands displaced from flooded homes and triggering deadly landslides across its more hilly regions.
A huge brown gash on the hillside marked where the deluge of mud flooded onto Ye Pyar Kone village in Mon state on Friday, wiping out 16 homes.

Search and rescue teams worked through the night with excavators and their bare hands trying to find survivors and recover bodies from the deep sludge, continuing through Saturday.
“The death toll has risen to 41,” township administrator Zaw Moe Aung said.
So far, 47 people have been left injured while officials believe that more than 80 people could still be missing.
Aerial pictures showed broken remnants of rooftops and other debris from the houses strewn next to trucks knocked over by the force of the mudslide.
The village’s hillside temple was left inundated, leaving the pagoda’s golden spire peeking out from beneath the mud.
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Htay Htay Win, 32, told said that two of her daughters and five other relatives had still not been found.
She only survived because she had left her home minutes earlier to go look at the flooding nearby.

“I heard a huge noise and turned round to see my home being hit by the mud,” she said, crying.
Rescuers spent Saturday morning loading bodies wrapped in plastic onto the back of low loaders as worried villagers looked on.

Tin Htay described how he and his family managed to escape when the landslide hit his house and his efforts to rescue others trapped by the mud.
“I dragged a woman and two children from a car but I could not reach two other people, so I had to leave them,” the 30-year-old said.
Emergency crews had to unblock the main highway from Yangon to Mawlamyine, buried under six feet (1.8 metres) of sludge.
Torrential downpours have burst riverbanks across the country while coastal communities have been warned of higher tides.
In the town of Shwegyin in eastern Bago region, residents waded out through waist-deep waters or waited to be rescued by boat after the Sittaung river burst its banks, swallowing entire homes.


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Residents are rescued from a flooded area by Japan Self-Defense Force soldiers in Kurashiki, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo July 7, 2018. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

epa06870103 A road is destroyed due to heavy train in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, 07 July 2018. Heavy rainfall killed at least 15 people and left more than 45 missing, public television reported on 07 July 2018. Japan Meteorological Agency has warned record rainfall on 06 July for flooding, mudslides in southwestern and western Japan through 08 July and issued emergency weather warnings to six prefectures. In nine prefectures in western and southwestern Japan, authorities issued evacuation orders to more than one million people as Typhoon Maria passes the area. EPA-EFE/JIJI PRESS JAPAN OUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO ARCHIVES

Rescue workers are seen next to houses damaged by a landslide following heavy rain in Hiroshima, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo July 7, 2018. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

epa06870100 JR railway train is derailed due to heavy rain in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, 07 July 2018. Heavy rainfall killed at least 15 people and left more than 45 missing, public television reported on 07 July 2018. Japan Meteorological Agency has warned record rainfall on 06 July for flooding, mudslides in southwestern and western Japan through 08 July and issued emergency weather warnings to six prefectures. In nine prefectures in western and southwestern Japan, authorities issued evacuation orders to more than one million people as Typhoon Maria passes the area. EPA-EFE/JIJI PRESS JAPAN OUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO ARCHIVES

People waif to be rescued on the top of a house almost submerged in floodwaters caused by heavy rains in Kurashiki, Okayama prefecture, southwestern Japan, Saturday, July 7, 2018. Torrents of rainfall and flooding continued to batter southwestern Japan. (Shingo Nishizume/Kyodo News via AP)

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The landslide was triggered by monsoon rains, which have caused widespread flooding in Myanmar in recent weeks
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Monsoon rains have caused widespread flooding in Myanmar in recent weeks, resulting in tens of thousands of people being displaced.


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