Rural areas have been worst hit by the strike.

这次罢工对农村地区的打击最沉重。

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While some of the worst-hit areas are beginning to dry out, the floodwaters are moving down the Indus valley towards the one province that hasn't yet been pummeled.

正当一些受灾最严重的地区洪水开始消失时，一个至今从未遭遇洪灾的省份却被顺着印度河谷滚滚而下的洪水包围。

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Half of those killed were elderly; 95% of the dead in Miyagi prefecture, one of the worst-hit areas, drowned, according to new police statistics.

一半的死者是老年人；95%的死于宫城县。据警方的数据，宫城县是受灾最严重的地区之一，完全被淹没。

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Many of the world leaders visited some of the worst-hit areas.

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Authorities say heavy digging equipment is headed to the worst-hit areas of western Java, but time is running out for scores buried under collapsed buildings and landslides.

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Our whole family is in Abbottabad which is one of the worst hit areas by the quake.

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One of the worst hit areas has been Sandilands near Sutton-on-Sea where sand has also covered people's gardens.

BBC: Clearing coastal sand drifts 'remains a priority'

The firm said that it was working to boost capacity at telephone exchanges in the worst hit areas.

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