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Death toll from Myanmar cyclone nearly doubles (AP)

Posted by on May 16, 2008

In this image released by the relief charity Shelterbox shows some of the thousand boxes from the relief charity ShelterBox containing tents, mosquito nets, tools and other life saving equipment are unloaded at the airport in Yangon Friday, 16, May, 2008. Lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in cyclone-hit Myanmar in the coming days, the international Red Cross said Friday. Hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims in the Southeast Asian country need clean water urgently or risk falling victim to diseases such as dysentery, the head of operations for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said. (AP Photo/Mark Pearson, Shelterbox, HO)AP - The official death toll nearly doubled to 78,000 from Myanmar’s killer cyclone Friday as heavy rains lashed much of the area stricken two weeks ago, further hampering relief efforts.

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