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Burma death toll could exceed 100,000

By Amy Kazmin in Bangkok and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington

Published: May 7 2008 18:56 | Last updated: May 8 2008 11:15

The death toll from the cyclone that struck Burma at the weekend could exceed 100,000, the US said.

Stephen Hadley, the White House national security adviser, said 100,000 people had probably been killed, with a large number of others unaccounted for, in a “humanitarian disaster of enormous proportions”. He said that Burma’s junta would “compound the disaster” by denying access to relief groups.

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