18 illegal immigrants killed in crash in Turkey
Sun Oct 5, 10:46 AM ET
ANKARA (Reuters) - A small truck carrying illegal immigrants plunged into a river after overturning on a Turkish highway near the border with Greece on Sunday, killing 18 people and injuring 25 others, Anatolian state news agency said.
It said most of the dead were from Myanmar and Pakistan. The accident happened in the town of Malkara, west of Istanbul, a local official told Anatolian.
Turkey is a major trafficking route for illegal immigrants trying to enter the European Union from southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union. They are often transported in overcrowded vehicles.
မ်ိဳးခ်စ္ျမန္မာ ျပည္သာယာ
FAO to extend cyclone aid project period for Myanmar
YANGON, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations will extend the period of its Myanmar cyclone aid project for another six months to run until next year, Flower News reported Sunday.
Some 33.5 million U.S. dollars of fund for the extended project are being sought, the FAO resident representative was quoted as saying.
The extended project is designed to benefit 50,000 lesser-land-owned and 100,000 landless storm-survived households, the sources said, adding that the fund will further help develop agriculture, livestock breeding and forestry undertakings locally until next summer.
In July this year after May storm, the FAO agreed to provide emergency relief aid supplies for an initial six-month period to storm survivors in two cyclone-hard-hit regions of Ayeyawaddy and Yangon for the resumption of their agricultural and fishery production, according to earlier local report quoting the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.
The FAO also donated 600 cattle for four cyclone-hit areas of Kungyankon, Mawlamyinegyun, Ngaputaw and Phyapon to help restart agricultural cultivation there, the Livestock Breeding Department said.
The FAO-donated cattle were purchased from lesser-cyclone-hit region of Bago and cyclone-free northern region of Mandalay, it added.
Deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago,Mon and Kayin on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructural damage.
The storm has killed 84,537 people, leaving 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured according to official death toll.
Altogether 300,000 cattle died in cyclone-hard-hit Ayeyawaddy and Yangon divisions.
ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ မိုးႀကိဳးပစ္၊ ၄ ေယာက္ေသ၊ ၂ ေယာက္ဒါဏ္ရာရ
Four killed, two injured by lightning strike in Myanmar
Sun Oct 5, 2:15 AM ET
YANGON (AFP) - Four villagers were killed and another two injured when lightning struck a shop in Myanmar's administrative capital Naypyidaw, state media reported Sunday.
Villagers Than Aung, 40, Muang Ko, 35, Zaw Naing Tun, 18 and shopkeeper Tin Wine, 49, were killed while sheltering from a heavy storm on Friday afternoon at 3pm (0830 GMT), newspaper Myanma Ahlin reported.
Two people were taken to hospital in Naypyidaw for treatment, it said.
The paper gave no further details of the accident.
Rainy season runs from June to October in Myanmar. On May 2-3 a cyclone swept the southwest of the country, leaving 138,000 people dead or missing.
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