message: The first day we had four outpatients, yesterday the number rose to 40 and today we had 70 before lunch. As Hurricane Mitch pummeled Nicaragua and Honduras, triggering flash floods and mudslides, women began counting the missing. Operation Goal: to meet the urgent needs of the 50,000 worst affected families in Assam and Bihar with food, shelter, family packs and medical services, to ensure improved quality of water over a period of four months and prepare to meet longer-term needs through necessary capacity building and disaster mitigation initiatives over a further period of six months after the emergency phase. Thankfully, heavy and steady rain completely extinguished the big forest fire in Pech valley of Konar after it destroyed 30 square kilometers (12 square miles) of jungle and 130,000 logs," the Taliban mouth-piece said.