Aid groups warn Burma of more cyclone deaths

International aid agencies mustered everything from anti-snake venom kits to plastic roofing today, warning that a second wave of deaths would follow the Burma cyclone disaster unless the military regime let in more aid quickly.

The Red Cross estimated that the cyclone death toll in Burma could be as high as 128,000 – a much higher figure than a tally by the government, which continued to issue few visas to foreign aid experts, and all but shut them out of the hardest-hit area.