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Published on Wednesday, May 07, 2008
By Seth Mydans The New York Times
BANGKOK - As hungry, shivering survivors waited among the dead for help on Wednesday after a huge cyclone in Myanmar, aid agencies and diplomats said the delivery of relief supplies was being slowed by the reluctance of the country's secretive military leaders to allow an influx of outsiders.
With conditions growing worse in the vast, flooded Irrawaddy delta region, the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar said the death toll could rise to as many as 100,000, from the official tally of 22,500.
Relief workers and survivors described scenes of horror as people huddled on spits of dry ground surrounded by bodies and animal carcasses floating in the murky water or lodged in mangrove trees.
With Myanmar mostly closed to foreign journalists, information was coming from aid agencies, from the accounts of local reporters, and from e-mail messages and telephone conversations with residents and diplomats
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