The death toll from a devastating cyclone has risen to almost 4,000, a Myanmar state radio station said Monday.The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital Naypyitaw said that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for in a single town in the country's low-lying Irrawaddy River delta area.
The government had previously put the death toll countrywide from Saturday's Cyclone Nargis at 351.
The storm has plunged residents of Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, 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 felled trees.
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