41.   In the worst hit area -- Vargas state along the Caribbean coast -- hardship is now a way of life.

42.   It said army medical staff were being deployed to help combat the disease in worst hit areas of northern and western Zimbabwe.

43.   Jl. Gajah Mada and its surrounding areas were the worst hit areas during the riots.

44.   Just over the border in northern Italy, the hardest hit area was Varese.

45.   Meanwhile, thousands of residents in the hardest hit area of central Karachi have been without electricity since Sunday, when gunmen shot out several transformers.

46.   Most of the young have left Shirazabad and dozens of villages like it in the hardest hit areas in the south, east and northeast.

47.   Most of the floodwater subsided Tuesday in the hardest hit areas of Sparta in Sussex County and Jefferson Township in Morris County.

48.   Police and paramilitary troops have stepped up patrols in the worst hit areas, but gunmen are seldom arrested.

49.   Residents in the hardest hit areas have accused the police and Rangers of using excessive force in a crackdown against militant mohajirs.

50.   Provincial authorities must also ensure that adequate manpower, pumps and trucks for transporting water were available for severely hit areas, the sources said.