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The official death toll has increased throughout the day. Burmese state radio reported that 22,464 people had been confirmed dead.</p><p>Kyaw Hsan, the information minister, said the regime was "doing its best" to help those afflicted, but that the authorities were finding the relief effort difficult.</p><p>"The task is very wide and extensive and the government needs the cooperation of the people and well-wishers from at home and abroad," he said in a news conference in the rubble-strewn former capital, Rangoon, where food and water are running short.</p><p>"We will not hide anything," he said, saying £2.2m had been set aside to provide aid.</p><p>With the price of staple foods, building materials and fuel skyrocketing, he warned retailers against profiteering. "We are coordinating and cooperating with private businessmen. We appeal to the entrepreneurs and businessmen not to cash in on the disaster," he said.</p><p>In one town alone, Bogalay in the Irrawaddy delta, the foreign minister, Nyan Win, said 10,000 people had died after it was flattened by the storm surge whipped up by 120mph winds.</p><p>A spokeswoman for Save the Children said: "It is becoming more and more clear that this is a very serious disaster. Our colleagues out there are comparing it to the level of devastation we saw from the tsunami [in 2004]."</p><p>The dramatically escalating toll of dead and missing four days after Cyclone Nargis slammed into the south and centre of the country reflects the degree of devastation and remoteness of the worst-affected areas along the coast.</p><p>The military regime in Burma, known for the brutal repression of its people, has said it would accept international help, and teams of specialists are making their way to the affected areas.</p><p>Noppadol Pattama, Thailand's foreign minister, said the Burmese ambassador to Bangkok, Ye Win, told him that 30,000 were missing. Asia's worst cyclone hit Bangladesh in 1991, killing 143,000.</p><p>In the delta area to the south and south-west of Rangoon, witnesses described how 16 villages along the coast near another devastated town, Laputta, had simply vanished in the flood surge.</p><p>Aid agencies have estimated that as many as 1 million people may be without shelter after their flimsy bamboo homes were torn down by the winds or washed away in the flooding that left a carpet of mud when it receded.</p><p>"We have a major humanitarian catastrophe on our hands," said Chris Kaye, Burma country director for the UN's World Food Programme.</p><p>"The numbers are harrowing. Certainly, we know that in areas in the southern delta - towns like Bogalay and Laputta - were very, very badly affected by the storm surge. A surge in low-lying areas coupled with high winds served to flatten areas, taking villages and villagers with it. It's a tragic and serious situation," he said.</p><p>Rescuers have already begun distributing plastic sheeting for shelter, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, food and cooking utensils. But with little clean water the fear of disease and water-borne illnesses in the tropical climate are now among the agencies' biggest concerns.</p><p>Thailand, the UN, EU, Japan and India are sending supplies and US first lady Laura Bush said the US was offering £125,000 of aid and assistance teams were ready to go to help as soon as they were requested.</p><p>Aid agency World Vision, in Australia, said it had been granted special visas to send in personnel to back up 600 Burmese staff.</p><p>"This is massive," said World Vision's Tim Costello. "Organisations like ours have been given permission, which is pretty unprecedented, to fly people in. This shows how grave it is in the Burmese government's mind."</p><p>The cyclone struck at a time when the regime is under intense international pressure to democratise following the widespread suppression of street protests last year. The ruling junta blamed the protests on foreign interference.</p><p>A British foreign office minister, Meg Munn, issued a statement saying: "The priority must be to mobilise aid to all those affected to avoid further suffering. We call on the Burmese regime to provide rapid support to its people and to accept international assistance."</p><p>The European Union said it would provide €2m (£1.57m) in urgent humanitarian aid for the cyclone victims.</p><p>"With every hour that passes, the news coming out of Myanmar [Burma] gets grimmer and grimmer," said the development commissioner, Louis Michel. "This is a terrible catastrophe that demands a quick and effective humanitarian response."</p><p>Residents of Rangoon, including groups of monks, joined forces during the day in an effort to clear the roads of downed trees and telegraph poles.</p><p>Traffic in the city was described as "horrendous" because most of the roads were reduced to narrow arteries by debris, but at least it afforded an opportunity to get aid to outlying areas.<br/>Electricity remained cut off in most of the city, forcing people to queue to buy candles, which, along with other foodstuffs and supplies, have increased in price dramatically.</p><p>Aid workers were concerned that without access to water people in the city were washing in the lakes, where the supply was already considered a health hazard.</p><p>"In the city the main problem, absolutely, is water," said Kirkwood. "In the urban areas, the water is less of a problem. 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