YANGON, Myanmar - A state radio station says the death toll from a devastating cyclone in Myanmar has risen to nearly 4,000.
According to radio almost 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town.
The government had previously put the death toll countrywide from Saturday’s Cyclone Nargis at 351.
The storm has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless and without clean drinking water, a U.N. official has said.
Residents of Myanmar’s largest city were plunged into a primitive existence Monday, using candles instead of electricity, lining up to buy shrinking supplies of water and hacking their way through streets blocked by trees felled in a cyclone that killed almost 4,000.
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