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Death toll soars in Myanmar
17 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT
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May 16. - Rain deepens Myanmar misery as the Junta sharply raises its death toll.

Up to 2.5 million survivors are clinging to life in the low-lying Irrawaddy delta, with thousands of people lining roadsides to beg for help in the absence of large scale government or foreign relief operations.

Sarah Toms reports.




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Crew members sit on CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters on the USS Essex, about 50 nautical miles south of Myanmar's Irawaddy Delta, May 17, 2008. The USS Essex is currently stationed in ...



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