Cyclone death toll nears 4,000 with 3,000 missing in Burma

A Burmese state radio station says the death toll from a devastating cyclone has risen to almost 4,000.

The radio station broadcasting from the country’s capital Naypyitaw said today that almost 3,000 more people are unaccounted for in a single town in the country’s low-lying Irrawaddy River delta area.