Dead and Dazed
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Throughout this central
American capital, victims of the floods and landslides spawned over the weekend by
Huricane Mitch were trying to reconstruct their lives, though most had little left besides
the clothes they wore and a thin thread of hope.
More than a dozen neighborhoods in this city of 800,000 were erased by floodwaters or buried under landslides.
All over the city, stunned men and women picked through the shattered remains of their homes.
In some places, like the devastated Colonia Soto, hundreds of vultures swirled overhead, apparently attracted by the faint but fetid scent of corpses buried in the rubble created by an avalanche Saturday morning.