BANGKOK, May 7 (Reuters) - About 1 million people were left homeless by the devastating cyclone that hit Myanmar and about 5,000 sq km (1,930 sq miles) remain underwater in the Irrawaddy delta, a U.N. aid official said on Wednesday. "We estimate upwards of 1 million people currently in need of shelter and life-saving assistance," Richard Horsey, spokesman for the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs told Reuters in Bangkok after a meeting of aid experts. "There are large swathes of the lower Irrawaddy delta completely under water. We are talking 5,000 sq km under water. It's a vast area," Horsey said. (Reporting by Darren Schuettler; Writing by Grant McCool; Editing by Alex Richardson)
Airport baggage handlers load aid bound for Myanmar onto a commercial aircraft in Singapore May 7, 2008. Disease, hunger and thirst pose a major threat to hundreds of thousands of survivors ...
Myanmar (formerly Burma)
