The government-run radio station said Tuesday that 22,464 are confirmed dead and 41,000 are missing, and the United Nations says that up to 1 million could be homeless.
CNN's Dan Rivers is the first Western journalist to reach Bogalay township, where China's state-run Xinhua news agency says 10,000 died. He reported miserable conditions.
Rivers said that bodies were being dropped into rivers and that survivors had only small amounts of eggs and rice. The area's rice mills are destroyed, leaving Bogalay with a five-day supply. Water pumps were also ruined, and fuel was scarce.
He reported destroyed homes along 30-kilometer stretches. In one area, only four homes remained from a total of 369. People were taking shelter under canvas sheets, and the weather remained awful.
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SBS - Hundreds of thousands need help in Burma
The United Nations estimates that "hundreds of thousands" of people in Burma are in need of help after a cyclone that killed nearly 22,500, a top UN humanitarian official said.
"Unfortunately we cannot tell you how many people are in need of assistance," Rashid Khalikov, director of the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, told reporters in New York.
"We just clearly understand that it will probably be in the hundreds of thousands of people."
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BBC - Burma's cyclone death toll soars
The death toll from Burma's devastating cyclone has now risen to more than 22,000, state media have said.
Another 41,000 are missing three days after Cyclone Nargis hit the country, causing a huge tidal surge to sweep inland, according to state radio.Source: BBC News , To read more click here
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