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10 deaths per day in Kinkala alone

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    "The humanitarian situation is much worse than is understood in the international community," Paton said, adding that many people were dying every day due to malnutrition and related illness. In the town of Kinkala alone, there were about 10 deaths per day among its estimated 12,000 people. Kinkala, some 77 km from Brazzaville, was only recently accessed by the aid agency Caritas during a one-day visit, accompanied by a military convoy. "There were many corpses of the displaced along the road," Paton said. Humanitarian sources told IRIN this week that about a fifth of the displaced children returning to Brazzaville are severely malnourished.

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