The Kalemyo River, which is also called Myita River overflowed its banks and inundated the highway bringing to a halt vehicles, which plied on the road regularly in Kalemyo, Sagaing division western Burma two days ago.

According to available reports the river had overflowed the bank and flooded the motor road. So vehicles could not use the road affecting services to Kale via Kalewo, Kale-Tamu and Kale-Mandalay preventing people from reaching their destinations.

“The vehicles could only ply since yesterday. The waters receded and Kalemyo is now free of inundation,” a local said.

The floods lasted two days in the town. Twenty villages located on the river bank were inundated affecting about 3,000 people in Kalemyo monastery and Kaley-Theatre. The authorities are collecting food from the local people for flood victims.

The floods also destroyed rice and other plantations over an area of over 10,000 acres near the river and it swept away the Sekyi-bridge on the road to Tahan-Letpanchawng.