Residents negotiate a flooded road after rampaging waters from Swar Chaung dam submerged villages in Bago region, central Myanmar on August 29, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Thet AUNG
A major effort was under way to reach thousands of people trapped in their homes after a dam swollen by monsoon rain overflowed early Wednesday in central Myanmar, officials said.
A surge of water inundated the rural flatland in Bago region after the Swar Chaung dam spillway, which regulates the release of water, collapsed due to heavy seasonal rain.
AFP reporters in Kayin village described how some people waded through chest-deep water to get to higher ground.
Many others remained trapped in their half-submerged homes as rescuers worked into the night to try to ferry residents out.
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