21.   Among the hardest hit areas is the vicinity of Bethlehem, a traditionally Christian district.

22.   As far as unemployment is concerned, the hardest hit areas of the economy are the service, manufacturing and construction sectors, it said.

23.   As relief workers reach the hardest hit areas, they have begun worrying about the risk of diseases like malaria, because of the rain, Russell said.

24.   But flood waters and fierce rains kept people away from the hardest hit areas.

25.   But the government has actively sought to keep bad news under wraps, heavily policing badly hit areas and turning away foreign and even some Chinese reporters.

26.   But the number of casualties was expected to rise because some communications in the worst hit areas had been cut off, they said.

27.   Casualty figures are expected to rise as communication with the hardest hit areas is restored.

28.   Casualty figures are expected to rise as communication with the hardest hit areas of Jiashi county is restored.

29.   Cuba says it is using pipes to divert water from dams farther away from the hardest hit areas.

30.   Earlier the hardest hit areas were in the Northwest Frontier Province and neighboring Baluchistan province.