Aid has reached more than 1 million Myanmar cyclone victims

By SPA,

Geneva : More than 1 million victims of the Myanmar cyclone have now received international aid as relief groups battle to reach hundreds of thousands more still stranded in remote areas, the United Nations said Tuesday.

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About 42 percent of the 2.4 million people affected by the storm that hit the Southeast Asian country three weeks ago have received outside help, a spokeswoman for the U.N.’s emergency coordination body said.

Cyclone Nargis killed at least 78,000 people and left another 56,000 missing when it hit Myanmar on May 2-3.