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"Unless there is a massive and fast infusion of aid, experts and
supplies into the hardest-hit areas, there's going to be a tragedy on
an unimaginable scale," said Greg Beck of the International Rescue
Committee.
In the delta town of Labutta, where 80 percent of homes were
destroyed, the authorities were providing just one cup of rice per
family per day, a European Commission aid official told Reuters.
The scenes are the same across the delta, where as many as 100,000
people are feared dead in the worst cyclone to hit Asia since 1991,
when 143,000 people died in Bangladesh.
"We have 900 people here, but we only have 300 lunch boxes. We gave it
to the women and children first. The men still have not had any food,"
said one woman at a relief centre in the town of Myaung Mya, 100 km
(60 miles) west of Yangon.
"More are coming every day," she said.
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5,000 sq km of Myanmar still underwater: UN
About 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 square miles) of Myanmar's
cyclone-hit regions remain underwater, with more than a million people
in need of emergency relief, a UN spokesman said on Thursday.
"We're talking about 5,000 square kilometres under water," said
Richard Horsey, a Bangkok-based spokesman with the United Nation's
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"The bottle neck (in aid) is getting it out in the delta. That needs
boats, helicopters, trucks .... there are upward of one million people
in need of help," he added.
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