Initial reports from the emergency services said the first collision saw eight people hurt and five cars involved, but those figures were later updated to 11 casualties and four vehicles.

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New research by the United Nations' standing committee on nutrition (available on www.unscn.org) gives a first estimate of how the crisis has hurt the group of people most affected by the crash: the very poorest.

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And when these folks saw someone who was hurt and in need of their assistance, does anyone imagine that these fine people first asked the injured what their political or religious preferences were before lending what, in many cases, was a life-saving hand?

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