A man watches a crowd of Buddhist believers sit on the waters edge as they throw rice balls at fish in a river surrounding the Kyauktan Ye Le Pagoda, a Buddhist temple built in the middle of a river in Yangon State in Myanmar. Photo/AFP

Yangon: A total of 285 people were killed and 1,073 others injured across Myanmar during a four-day water festival, media reports said. The deaths were 13 more than that of last year's event.