51.   Residents in the hardest hit areas have accused the police and security forces of using excessive force in a crackdown against militants.

52.   Rescue workers were trying to reach the hardest hit areas, but floodwaters were making progress slow, officials said under customary condition of anonymity.

53.   Search and rescue teams from Surabaya, the capital of East Java province, have been dispatched to the worst hit areas.

54.   The border communities were among the worst hit areas last spring, during the height of the drought.

55.   The hardest hit area was the eastern Punjab province.

56.   The hardest hit areas were slums with poorly constructed buildings.

57.   The highland provinces are the hardest hit area, with food crops destroyed by a combination of a three-month drought and frosts.

58.   The hardest hit areas have been southern Punjab province and vast tracts of her home province of Sindh.

59.   The hardest hit areas were slum areas with poorly constructed buildings.

60.   The hardest hit areas were the basins of the Coco and Matagalpa rivers and the Lagoon of Managua.