US, Honduran and Nicaraguan soldiers searched remote jungle beaches and the open sea for survivors and bodies after Hurricane Felix claimed at least 98 lives, many of them Miskito Indians who died fleeing the Category 5 storm.

HELICOPTERS clattered overhead and Miskito Indians paddled canoes through a debris-littered sea in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, yesterday, searching desperately for survivors of Hurricane Felix.

Doctors treated storm casualties in a makeshift clinic after Hurricane Felix flooded their hospital and wrecked villages on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast.