NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–18 June 2010 – United Nations aid agencies are using speedboats to help rescue people from flood waters that have inundated villages in western Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh and killed dozens of people.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported yesterday that eight boats that are normally used by staff to reach remote villages were instead deployed to save 50 patients and 20 staff trapped in a hospital and more…






