A 50-member medics from China, carrying relief aid equipment and medicines, arrived at the Yangon International Airport Sunday night to render direct medical aid to the country's cyclone victims survived by a severe cyclone storm Nargis that hit some parts of the country early this month.

The Chinese team became the third foreign medical aid group after that of Thailand and India, which arrived earlier on Saturday, to provide such medical care to the victims.

Greeting the Chinese medics were Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Guan Mu and officials of Myanmar relief and resettlement authorities.

A deadly tropical cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit five divisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin -- on May 2 and 3, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and infrastructural damage.

According to a latest official death toll released on Friday evening, as many as 77,738 people have been killed in the disaster with altogether 55,917 still missing and 19,359 injured.

(Xinhua News Agency May 19, 2008)