Nearly 2,000 households in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, have been evacuated as Ayeyarwady River overflowed above danger mark due to heavy rains, according to the local authorities.

Three Irrawaddy dolphin calves have been found recently in central Myanmar's Ayeyarwady River, reported the Global New Light of Myanmar.

Four people were killed and 35 others went missing when two vessels sank in Ayeyarwady river in Magway region, central Myanmar, according to the Myanmar Information Ministry.