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Myanmar inundated by floods

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Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (centre), rides a boat after visiting a monastery where flood victims are sheltered in Bago. [Khin Maung Win/AP Photo]
By Al Jazeera and Agencies
Published On 3 Aug 2015

More than 200,000 people have been affected after heavy monsoon rains caused floods in Myanmar. Dozens of people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed. 

President Thein Sein has declared several regions of the country to be disaster zones.

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Vehicles make their way through a flooded road in Bago, 80km northeast of Yangon. [Khin Maung Win/AP Photo]
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Flood victims take shelter at an indoor stadium. [Khin Maung Win/AP Photo]
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Monsoon in Myanmar starts at the beginning of June and ends in September. [Lynn Bo Bo/EPA]
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A man rows his boat by the entrance signboard of Kalay township submerged in water, in Sagaing. [Khin Maung Win/AP Photo]
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Myanmar's president has declared several regions of the country to be disaster zones as the flooding could get worse. [Lynn Bo Bo/EPA]
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Heavy rains have caused flooding of rice field and in about a hundred villages. [Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters]
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More than 217,000 people have been affected or displaced in the country. [Lynn Bo Bo/EPA]
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Sagaing, Magway Regions and Rakhine, Chin States have been declared disaster zones. [Lynn Bo Bo/EPA]
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A man rows his boat along a flooded street in Kawlin township. [Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters]
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President Thein Sein has promised the government will do its "utmost" to provide relief. [Lynn Bo Bo/EPA]
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Kalay township, northwestern Sagaing region. [Khin Maung Win/AP Photo]