272 people have been killed( with over 400 missing) and several thousands displaced (about 16,000 according to Ade Edward, head of operations of the Disaster Management Agency in West Sumatra Province) after a tsunami and several volcanic euruptions overwhelmed the country on Wednesday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11632982
And as if Haitian people have not dealt with enough in the last year. With nearly 300 people dead from the cholera outbreak, humanitarian organizations and government officials are anxious about cholera spreading to the capital, Port-au-Prince, since more than 1 MILLION people are still living in camps in and around the capital city, which was nearly entirely destroyed during the earthquake at the beginning of this year.
This BBC video is interesting as the journalist interviews a member of the international organization for migration, which handles many of these camps around the capital. Another key issue with the cholera outbreak, as you will see, is how unknown it is there, and thus how fear spread like wild fire over this issue.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11633216
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