Staff Reporter

Rescuers, including military personnel, are racing against time to reach tens of thousands of cyclone survivors, who are in urgent need of food, drinking water and shelter in remote areas of the storm battered districts of the southern coast.
The Armed Forces yesterday said military personnel have already reached 90 per cent of the affected areas with relief materials.
However, relief workers and journalists from the affected areas yesterday said they found survivors still looking for their dear ones, while corpses of victims, cattleheads and wild animals were floating on the shore of the Bay of Bengal, the many rivers, canals and other water bodies. [Read more]