Panic Erupts as Workers Struggle to Bury Storm Dead
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Hungry, thirsty and increasingly desperate Haitians burned tyres in protest and attacked aid trucks and people carrying scarce food and water as workers struggled to bury thousands of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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Workers used dumptrucks to empty scores of bodies into a four-metre-deep hole Wednesday - the first mass grave for more than 800 flood victims - as bystanders shrieked, held noses against the stench and demanded officials collect
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More than 300 people are feared dead after a storm triggers flash floods in the Philippines, officials say.
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least 48 people and left 33 missing and rescuers are racing against time to search for survivors. Wednesday. Others died in flooding or were swept away by massive waves as Tokage, which means lizard in.
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 23, 2004 - Workers dug new mass graves for corpses that still littered this flood-ravaged city Thursday as the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and residents
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The death toll was expected to increase as rescue workers continued to dig through the rubble.
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 21, 2004 - Rescuers dug through mud and ruined homes for bodies Tuesday, expecting the death toll of more than 600 from Tropical Storm Jeanne to rise even further, with half the crowded
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Soldiers are searching for bodies in treetops, families are weeping over the dead laid on beaches and rescuers are scouring coral isles for missing tourists as
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Rescuers dug for survivors Wednesday after landslides and floods triggered by days of torrential rain killed dozens of people in western Indonesia.
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With the death toll in Haiti by Tropical Storm Jeanne rising to more than 1,000 on Thursday, panic erupted in some disaster areas for fear of being unable to get food and water supplies, news from Haiti said.
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Relief agencies battled bad weather to deliver supplies into storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the toll of dead and missing from two storms in one week exceeded 1,400, officials said.
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In this nation beset by violence, disease and environmental devastation, weary relief workers struggled yesterday to gauge the magnitude of the latest disaster
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Hungry, thirsty, desperate residents fought each other to get food and water Thursday as workers struggled to bury hundreds of corpses six days after the city was struck by
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Relief efforts in the Philippines faced delays Sunday for survivors of Typhoon Durian, as fears grew of a rising death toll in the archipelago nation from last week's storm.
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Workers in the Pakistani city of Karachi struggled on Monday to clear roads of fallen trees and wreckage and to restore electricity after a weekend wind and rain storm killed more than 200 people.
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HOSPITALS overflowed with corpses and funeral homes were crammed with crowds as Sri Lanka continued to struggle with its largest natural disaster.
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NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.