Myanmar seizes UN aid material

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - U.N. officials say Myanmar's military government has confiscated all cyclone relief supplies, including food, that the U.N. has sent to the country.

A U.N. spokesman says the seizure includes 38 tons of high-energy biscuits. The U.N. has suspended the delivery of aid to Myanmar until the aid is released.

The regime has also refused to grant visas to foreign aid workers to coordinate the relief effort. Myanmar turned back a relief plane yesterday because a search-and-rescue team and unauthorized media were aboard.

Meanwhile, more than a million people who have been made homeless from last weekend's cyclone are awaiting food, shelter and medicine.

State media report at least 62,000 people are dead or missing. And aid groups warn that thousands of children may have been orphaned and the area is on the verge of a medical disaster.