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> Officials say corpses are floating in the water as Myanmar disaster
grows
>
> MSNBC News Services
> updated 7:19 p.m. ET, Wed., May. 7, 2008
>
> YANGON, Myanmar - Bodies floated in flood waters and survivors tried to
> reach dry ground on boats using blankets as sails, while the top U.S.
> diplomat in Myanmar said Wednesday that up to 100,000 people may have
died
> in the devastating cyclone.
>
> Hungry crowds stormed the few shops that opened in the country's
stricken
> Irrawaddy delta, sparking fist fights, according to Paul Risley, a
> spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program in neighboring Thailand.
>
> Shari Villarosa, who heads the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar, said food and
> water are running short in the delta area and called the situation there
> "increasingly horrendous."
>
> "There is a very real risk of disease outbreaks as long as this
> continues," Villarosa told re****ters. Some 1 million people were
homeless
> in the Southeast Asian country, the U.N. said.
>
> State media in Myanmar re****ted that nearly 23,000 people died when
> Cyclone Nargis blasted the country's western coast on Saturday and more
> than 42,000 others were missing.
>
> But U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said that the cyclone's death
toll
> may rise "very significantly."
>
> Villarosa said 100,000 may have died and that 95 percent of buildings in
> the affected area are demolished.
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24497236/
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