The death toll from last week’s Thingyan New Year festivities has climbed to 36, with another 316 injured, according to local media.
A total of 46 road crashes claimed 17 lives and left 235 injured, state-run newspaper the Global New Light of Myanmar reported Monday.
Myanmar’s notoriously deadly roads, which kill hundreds every year, were crowded with holidaymakers during the five-day festival.
Victims included Miss Universe Myanmar finalist Ei Phyo Thwe, 24, who was killed with her mother after their Toyota Land Cruiser Prado overturned on the Yangon-Mandalay highway on Monday 10.
The road is dubbed ‘Death Highway’ on account of its high fatality rate.
Another 17 people died under other circumstances during the festival. A 40-year-old man whose body was found in Mandalay moat on Thursday is presumed to have drowned.
There were also three reported murders, one on April 13 and two on April 16.
