Flooding and landslides caused by monsoon rains and the tail end of Cyclone Komen since last month killed 103 people and affected nearly 1.3 million people in Myanmar, a senior government official said on Thursday, RFA reported on 13 August.
The flooding caused deaths and dislocation in ten of Myanmar's divisions and states, said officials from the Ministry of Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement.
People in Magwe and Sagaing Divisions are still unable to return to their homes. Those two divisions in Western Myanmar as well as adjacent Chin and Rakhine States, have been under a state of emergency since July 16, the officials said.
"103 people were killed and 1,280,000 have been affected," Win Shwe, director of the Ministry of Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement, told RFA's Myanmar Service.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said earlier this week that vast crop land was damaged and farmers needed seeds and equipment.