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Sunday 19 August 2007

Peru sends in army as misery grows among quake survivors

CNN Headline; says: 'The government sent the army to stop looting fueled by rising desperation in earthquake-shattered Peru, where tens of thousands were without fresh water and shivering families huddled in makeshift shelters at the center of the devastation. In a soccer stadium in the port city of Pisco, more than 500 people rushed a lone truck that ran out of little packets of crackers, candy and toilet paper, screaming that they had not eaten and accusing rescue workers of keeping supplies for themselves.

As many as 80 percent of the people in quake-hit urban areas may not have access to clean water, and many rural communities still have not been reached to assess the damage, said Dominic Nutt, part of an emergency assessment team in Peru for the aid agency Save the Children. "The situation is probably worse than first imagined," Nutt said.