Horror stories from Myanmar survivors
May 07, 2008 17:53 EDT

LABUTTA, Myanmar (AP) -- Shocked survivors who stumbled half-naked into one town in Myanmar are describing the horrors of last Saturday's cyclone and its aftermath.

One man says he was stranded in the top of an 18-foot-tall coconut tree as the wind and rain raged around him. He says he doesn't know what has happened to his wife and children.

Others say they used blankets as sails as they steered rickety boats around the bloated corpses of water buffaloes and dead neighbors floating in the murky waters.

Another man says his "entire village was wiped out" and that he's the only survivor from a family of 11.

More than 60,000 people are dead or missing in Myanmar's densely populated delta. Some fear that number could reach as many as 100,000 people.