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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Cyclone toll feared above 100,000

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NEW YORK — With the death toll expected to top 100,000, Burma's military government blocked international aid workers from delivering relief supplies yesterday as bodies floated in stagnant waters left behind by Saturday's cyclone.

The United Nations said its workers based outside Burma had not received a single visa and that Burmese officials were demanding that official escorts accompany all foreigners.

Foreign workers based inside Burma for U.N. agencies such as the World Food Program also had not received permission to travel through the hard-hit Irrawaddy Delta, where entire villages remained submerged.

Tin Win, the military leader of a ward in the town of Labutta, said dozens of villages in the hard-hit district, also named Labutta, have been wiped out by Cyclone Nargis, which lashed the southeast coastline with winds of up to 120 miles an hour.

"So far, the estimated death toll in those villages is about 80,000," he told Agence France-Presse today.

Some survivors stripped clothes off the dead. People wailed as they described the horror of the torrent swept ashore by the cyclone, which appears certain to become one of the top 10 natural disasters of the past 100 years.

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    "I don't know what happened to my wife and young children," Phan Maung, 55, told the Associated Press. He held on to a coconut tree until the water level dropped. By then, his family was gone.

    A spokesman for the U.N. Children's Fund said its staff in Burma reported seeing many people huddled in crude shelters and children who had lost their parents. As many as 1 million Burmese have been made homeless by Nargis.

    The senior U.S. diplomat in the country, Shari Villarosa, told reporters by telephone that the situation is "horrendous" and that the death toll could top 100,000. She said she was citing an estimate of one international relief organization, which she declined to name.

    "There is a very real risk of disease outbreaks as long as this continues," Miss Villarosasaid.

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