MEXICAN CHILD DRINKS MILK IN A SHELTER IN TONALA CHIAPAS, 1998-09-09 (photo)

A Mexican child lies on the floor of a shelter and drinks milk after her home was flooded because of torrential rains which have continued their assault after mudslides and swollen rivers killed at least 28 people in the past six days in the southern state of Chiapas September 9. Officials in Mexico City set up help lines and called for aid donations for an estimated 18,000 people, many of them impoverished Indians, who have been affected by the floods unleashed by a pair of storms that began their deadly course up Chiapas' Pacific coast last Friday. HR/CM/AA