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To: Alan Markoff who wrote (753)	11/6/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: SOROS	of 1151

BBC - London - 11/06/98 As exhausted rescue workers in Central America continue efforts to reach victims of the floods, the number of dead or missing has risen to 24,000. More than £30m in immediate relief aid is being supplied in the wake of Hurricane Mitch which caused massive flooding and landslides. Aid agencies are worried that the aid may come too late to prevent further deaths. "This is the worst disaster we've seen in this hemisphere," Brian Atwood, administrator for the US Agency for International Development, told a news conference. The United States is leading the effort, although there has been some criticism from aid agencies that the US military has been too slow to get off the ground. Death toll rising Hundreds of thousands more are destitute and may not survive unless emergency supplies reach the area soon. "Every hour that passes in the census of the dead, of those who lost their homes, of those who have been evacuated ... the numbers rise," said President Carlos Flores of Honduras, the hardest hit country. Aid arriving in Nicaragua and Honduras is flown directly into the capitals, but after that has to be ferried by helicopter and light aircraft. The main effort over the next two days will be to reach all the communities and towns still cut off by the floods. Plans to set up regional distribution centres from which to shuttle supplies to isolated areas are in hand. Meanwhile, there are fears of disease breaking out and the authorities are warning people to bury the dead immediately. Corpses appearing in the rivers have sometimes been washed miles downstream. Aid organisations are warning that it will take months and possibly years before Honduras gets back on its feet.

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