Million flee homes amid fears of disease, food and water shortages
(NEWSER) - Shortages of food, drinking water, and medicine threaten southeastern Mexico, where muddy flood waters cover 80% of the state of Tabasco and almost a million people have had to flee their homes. "The scene here is terrible, it's biblical," a Red Cross official told the Guardian, as a huge effort was mounted to rescue 300,000 people still trapped on roofs by surging waters. More»
