The material damage of the cyclone Nargis would amount to 10 billion USD

According to the first estimates, the material damage of the cyclone Nargis which literally lashed the country on May 2 would amount to billion USD. Regarded as a major human catastrophe, the cyclone has claimed the lives of 78 000 people while another 56 000 are missing, a provisional toll that is turning out to be even more dramatic in terms of human losses and as regards the trail of destruction it caused.