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A fisherman uses a net on two poles to catch fish along an irrigation canal in the rice field Friday, July 18, 2008 in a village in Yangon City, Myanmar. Cyclone Nagris lashed the area in early May, killing at least 84,500 people including some 27,000 fishermen. YAY TWIN GONE, Myanmar -- No matter how much she loved the river and sea that once provided her family's daily food, Tin Tin Latt now just wants to stay away from the water that widowed her, killed two of her children and destroyed the family's livelihood. Tin Tin Latt is among thousands of widows of fishermen in Myanmar's cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta who have been forced to become breadwinners without land to farm or the means to earn money from the sea. Cyclone Nargis, which struck in early May, killed 84,500 people and left 54,000 missing, according to the... [read full story]
