As the number of injuries continued to r____, it became clear that a humanitarian c___ was starting to unfold.

Events ____ed in a way that no one could have predicted.

They l_____ a relief effort and started to e_____ people from the disaster zones.

The roads were b_____, so they had to use helicopters to drop s____ to people.

Much of the i_____ was damaged or destroyed, and thousands of people started to f____ the worst-affected areas.

There were food s_____ and a l_____ amount of clean drinking water.

The _____ struck coastal areas just after midnight and caused widespread ______.

After the tornado, d____ from damaged trees and houses littered the town.

The government a_____ to the international community for a____.

The Vatican has agreed to donate $80,000 in humanitarian/emergency a____ to countries affected by the war.

The city’s hospitals had all been d_____, roads in and out of the city remained blocked and the seaport, which supplies would normally have been delivered to, was also unusable.

Europe's 2003 heat wave claimed more than 30,000 lives, making it the continent's largest n___ d____ in 50 years.

They finally managed to clear the d____ and started the huge t____ of rebuilding.