An aeroal view shaes floodwaters inundating houses and vegetation in Kalay , upper Myanmar's of torrential rain is likely to spike, AFP PHOTO / Ye Aung THU.
Hundreds have also perished in recent days in Indai, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam following floods and landslides triggered by heavy seasonal rain.
"We speding up assitance and relief work," said the official, who asked not to be named.
Myanmar is a vest and poor country, where communications and infrastructure are already weak, prompting the United Nations to warn that a full picture of the scale of the disaster may not emerge Fors day.
Authorities have declared the four worst-hit areas in central and western Myanmar " national dister-affected regions".
In the impoverished northern Sagaing Region, resudents said the flood waters caught them off-guard as floods swept into villages, swamping homes and fields.
"There was no warning...we thought it was normal ( saesonai flooding) ," Aye Myat Su,30, told AFP from a monastery being used as a temporary shelter in the regional capital of Kalay.
"But within few hours, the whole house was underwater. My husband had to get onto the roof as there was on way out."