By IRNA,
Kuala Lumpur : The World Food Program planes sat on runways in Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand as the organization awaited permission to land from Myanmar’s government, said Paul Risley, a spokesman for the organization in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday.
A fourth aircraft sat on the tarmac in Italy, awaiting clearance to deliver 20 tons of relief five days after Cyclone Nargis spawned widespread death and desperation in Myanmar, which was formerly known as Burma.
The official death toll in Myanmar is staggering. Myanmar’s government says more than 22,000 people died when the killer cyclone battered country’s low-lying delta region over the weekend.
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