Burma counts cost of killer cyclone

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.

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.

Older citizens said they had never seen Rangoon, a city of around 6.5 million, so devastated in their lifetimes.

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