YANGON, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Some cyclone survivors, who came a hard way from their home disaster-hit regions to seek shelter with their relatives in Yangon in the aftermath, recounted Tuesday their bitter experiences on the recent cyclone storm Nargis that stroke their areas.

    "I experienced the terrible human tragedy," said a survived villager from Laputta, Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy delta division who escaped death through much hardship from Nargis.

    The survivor, who is a farmer from the Pinzalu village of Laputta lying deep far from the town, said the village stood the hardest-hit one in the township with houses totally collapsed and driven away by a tidal wave of 20-feet (over 6 meters) high caused by the cyclone storm.

    "Carrying my two young daughters, I tried to swim to escape," he said, "One of my daughters died shortly in the violent storm."

    He had no alternative but to abandon the dead daughter in the wave and tried to keep himself afloat for a lengthy time, holding a nearby fallen tree branch.

    After the storm wind stopped for a moment, his another daughter was found dead in his hand, he cried out.

    He went on to recall that as his parents had been swept away by tidal wave at the start of the tragedy, he was left alive alone.

    "Many others in my village were similarly swept away by storm wave," he said, adding that he walked to the Laputta town afterwards, witnessing on the way all houses in villages were under water.

    Finding no drinking water and food in face of hunger, he tried to survive by drinking juice from fallen coconuts.

    Another woman villager told local media that she had to escape by staying on the roof of huts but was stricken by falling bamboo in the wind. People who could not stand the strike were swept away in the overnight storm.

    "As I walked to Laputta, I saw many people dying on the way," she said, estimating that three-quarter of people in her village have been killed in the storm.

    She went on to describe that "Only five people remained alive in my nearby village Yway Ywa."

    A woman teacher from Yay Wai Ywa village spoke to the local Weekly Eleven News that her village was erased hours after the storm started, adding that the dead were mostly female.

    "The whole village cried in the storm as if the world devastated," she said, "Some family members died together lying on the road in series."

    "I find no relatives in Laputta to depend but to rest on some spoiled pavilion of pagodas with shelter", she exclaimed.

    Despite donation of millet gruel by some wellwishers, I had to queue for it, she said.

    A local doctor is worried about hygiene issues that have developed through disposal of urine by tens of thousands of homeless victims and it also constitutes a threat by unsettled thousands of dead bodies from the health point of view.

    A deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, severely hit five divisions and states -- Yangon, Bago, Ayeyawaddy, Kayin and Mon -- on May 2 and 3, covering such coastal towns in the Ayeyawaddy division as Haing Gyi Island, Pathein, Myaungmya, Laputta, Mawlamyinegyun, Kyaiklat, Phyarpon and Bogalay, and 45 townships in the biggest city of Yangon and sustaining the heaviest ever casualties and infrastructural damage.

    According to an official updated death toll until Monday, a total of 31,938 people lost their lives in the cyclone storm with altogether 29,770 people remaining missing and 1,403 injured.