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VIDEO: Cyclone death toll may top 100,000
08 May 2008 07:55:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
May 7 - More than 100,000 people are now thought to have perished in a powerful Cyclone which devastated Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta region.

A U.S. diplomat said he'd received the information, which sharply revised upwards the official death toll from 22,000.

International pressure is growing on Myanmar's military rulers to allow a full-scale relief operation to be mounted. The U.N. is warning that one million people are homeless and in urgent need of help.

Helen Long reports.

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