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Spare a thought for a nation in peril
May 13, 2008
Water sources have been contaminated -- not just by saltwater -- but also by the thousands of human bodies or animal carcasses, many of them floating in the water.
'Survivors have joined in the rescue efforts. My team visited five locations in the Irrawaddy delta. In one of them, they saw 10,000 people living without shelter as rain tumbled from the sky,' ABC News quoted International Red Cross’ Myanmar chief Bridget Gardner as saying.
Image: Survivors wait in queue for relief food in Kyaiklat, in the Ayeyarwady division of south-west Myanmar.
Photograph: Khin Maung Win/AFP/Getty Images
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