Residents in Burma’s biggest city lit candles today, lined up to buy water and hacked their way through trees felled in a cyclone that killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and caused widespread power cuts.

A women’s group in Burma linked to the ruling junta has accused pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi of being a troublemaker and urged that she be deported to England, according to a report in a state-run newspaper.

ABOUT 30,000 people in Burma are in need of care, the UN World Food Programme said yesterday - suggesting damage caused by the tsunami is much greater than officials in the secretive state have acknowledged.