Bodies of 278 Cyclone Victims Are Found
From Times Wire Reports
The bodies of 278 Indian fishermen--among about 300 missing since a cyclone raged across the Arabian Sea two weeks ago--have been found near India’s west coast, officials said. “The high tide . . . brought more bodies to the coast along the Kutch district,” a relief official said. A team left for Karachi, Pakistan, to search for bodies that might have drifted there. Rescuers had found 92 bodies by May 27 after the storm that narrowly missed Gujarat hit the Pakistani coast.
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