Mexican flood victims scramble for aid

Members of the Mexican Red Cross hand out food parcels in Villahermosa, the capital city of the flooded state of Tabasco, November 4, 2007. Thousands more people were plucked from rooftops in southern Mexico on Sunday even as floods that have left 800,000 people homeless in Tabasco state began to recede, authorities said. The army evacuated 5,000 people in a four-hour operation with 14 helicopters, police official Daniel Montiel said, while trucks brought food and bottled water to some 600 overcrowded shelters struggling to provide enough meals and dry beds. [Agencies]

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