Families share heartbreak after cyclone shatters lives

As the cyclone raged around him, Ko Zaw Min clung to a tree with one arm and clutched his newborn son with the other. He watched as the boy died in his arm, and then saw his older son drop from the tree into the churning, salty waters below.

Families share heartbreak after cyclone shatters lives

As the cyclone raged around him, Ko Zaw Min clung to a tree with one arm and clutched his newborn son with the other. He watched as the boy died in his arm, and then saw his older son drop from the tree into the churning, salty waters below.

Ko Zaw Min, his wife and 11-year-old daughter managed to hang onto the tree for 10 hours as the punishing rain from the cyclone lashed their fatigued bodies.

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