URGENT - Cyclone kills at least 351 in Myanmar, state-run TV reports

AYE AYE WIN, May 4, 2008

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's state-run television reports that a powerful cyclone has killed at least 351 people.

State-run television says the toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis includes 109 who lived on Haing Gyi island located off the country's southwest coast.

A U.N. official said earlier that thousands of homes have been destroyed, mostly in the low-lying Irrawaddy delta.

The military-run Myaddy television station says five regions of the country have been declared disaster zones.


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