Burma search for 17 missing Britons

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The long-term residents in the secretive south-east Asian state have failed to make contact with friends or family in the UK since the disaster struck.

The Foreign Office, which put the number of missing Britons at 17, stressed that problems with communications could be the reason.

It said it had heard no reports of any British casualties caught up in the emergency.

As the crisis heads into its seventh day, much-needed relief is only just beginning to arrive. The first UN aid flight landed in the closed country on Thursday.

Cyclone Nargis struck on Saturday, bringing winds of up 120mph and flooding to the Irrawaddy Delta region.

Official figures put the death toll thus far at 22,980, with 42,119 missing.

But aid agencies and international representatives in Burma believe the final death toll could be more than four times higher.

Shari Villarosa, the charge d'affaires of the US embassy in Burma, has said there may be "more than 100,000 deaths" in the Irrawaddy Delta area. In addition, rotting human and animal corpses are threatening to spread disease.

About 200 British nationals live in Burma, while some 7,500 UK tourists are believed to visit the country every year.