JOURNALIST TELLS OF CHAOTIC RELIEF SCENE
27/03/2011
Mongkol Bangprapa & Kultida Ssmabuddhi
Bangkok Post
The death toll from the earthquake in Burma is much greater than feared with more than 150 people killed in the disaster, eyewitness reports suggest.
Puenkham Payakwong, a Tachilek native who works as a reporter for the Shan Herald News Agency, told the Bangkok Post that more than 150 people were killed, double the official toll of 75.
He also described a chaotic scene where relief efforts were failing to reach people, some of whom were running short of rice and water.
“The casualties are much higher than the official figure,” he said.
“Many people are still missing and their relatives have been trying in vain to search for their loved ones,” he said in a phone interview from Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.
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