A tornado that tore through two villages in central Myanmar near the capital Naypyitaw killed eight people and destroyed more than 200 houses, a rescue worker said Saturday.
The tornado hit Aung Myin Kone and Tadau villages on Naypyitaw’s southern outskirts at around 6:10 p.m. on Friday, Thet Paing Soe, a leading member of the Doh Lewe charity organization, told The Associated Press.
He said local charity organizations had transported 128 people to hospitals, and 232 houses in the two villages were destroyed.
“The tornado blew for approximately 40 minutes. Almost all the houses in the villages are quite badly damaged. The restoration will take months,” Thet Paing Soe said.
Major tornadoes are rare in Myanmar.
However, tornadoes of a size that rarely cause death and serious damage often occur in the summer and pre-monsoon periods when the temperature rises, said Kyaw Moe Oo, a director-general at the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology.
“During this period, there are frequent tornadoes in the lower parts of Myanmar, but there are few casualties. These kinds of fatalities in central Myanmar are rare,” he told AP.
Myanmar experiences extreme weather virtually every year during monsoon season. In 2008, Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 people.
State-run MRTV television reported that Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the head of Myanmar’s military-installed government, visited the disaster area on Saturday and provided aid to the residents. The report said that two Buddhist monasteries and a small clinic were among the structures destroyed.
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0:46 Bro got scared that he started speaking english
I'm surprised at the low death count considering how much damage there was.
0:46 This got me. Out of nowhere 😂 Tbf I would be as scared if that happened right in front of my eyes
Shit. God damnit.
🙏🏾🙏🏾
This is a fu..ing tornado one man says. Then get the fu..ing out of there or run for your life for Pete's sake.
Burmese swearing hits different
Is that an EF1 tornado?
Oh my gosh this breaks my heart prayers to everyone there
Wow. Terribile🤔🤔🤔🤔😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
1:16 They should use this clip on the news on CNN😂😂😂
Somebody's gonna get hurt real bad!!!
pls tell me that dog at 1:21 didnt get hurt
I hope the recovery of those people is swift. Their beautiful country is going through so many things right now and hurting the people.
Tomense su tiempo para venir no hay prisa.
Still amazes me how some people can be so completely oblivious to how dangerous tornados are
0:46 Nice of him to speak English for the US viewers.
omg
Lol everyone yelling "shit" and "God dammit" in English and then other stuff in another language is just funny to me
God bless and keep you guys, prayers going up 🥺🙏🏼❣
When is the last time this happened in Myanmar?
That tornado from a distance almost blends in with the sky. I've never seen that before because they are usually either well-defined as a tornado , hidden through rain or have an invisible condensation funnel.
Cute tornado. But it de barked some trees. It definitely had some power.
Lmao I love how the only english the dude knew was fuck and shit haha
Fuck, holy shit, god damn it
Poor Burma. They already suffered a military coup and civil war.
0:46 That's quite a mouth he got there.
Very violent tornado. Looks like high end EF3 to EF4
Holy God just spared that man's life and that man is cussing Him 😭
Omg that first clip is so scary so much debris and no where to hide