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A crew member on a Honduran ship docked in Fort Pierce, Florida in the US has been charged with attacking a crew mate with an ax.

Fort Pierce police say Walter R. Bodden is charged with aggravated battery after the weekend attack aboard the Southern Relentless.

Police say Bodden and the victim got into a fight. Bodden allegedly grabbed the ax and hit the man in the head with its flat side before others wrestled it away. The victim was bleeding from the head and had two black eyes, but declined medical attention.

In Honduras, 279,000 people are currently affected by the floods and 33 have died as a result. Over 2,200 homes were completely destroyed with an additional 11,000 houses damaged by the floods. Several thousands have taken refuge in emergency shelters as all but one of the country’s 18 state departments have been flooded and 40% of municipalities in Honduras are affected by the flooding. The government of Honduras declared a state of emergency on October 19th and has formally requested humanitarian assistance. Some of the affected areas are only accessible by boat, impeding the frequency and speed of delivery of aid.

Humanitarian aid workers responding to devastating flooding in Honduras have received assistance from space, with satellite images of affected areas provided rapidly following activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters.

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and 33 lives have been claimed by floods and landslides brought on by a tropical depression that hit the Central American country on 16 October.

On 27 October, the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) asked the International Charter on ‘Space and Major Disasters’, referred to as ‘The Charter’, for support. Satellite images of the area acquired by ESA’s Envisat were delivered the same day.

The U.S. military has sent a task force to Honduras to help with one of the problems created by the recent disastrous flooding and landslides: a lack of drinkable water.

Joint Task Force Bravo, with troops dispatched from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, put together an emergency filtration system for a community near La Paz. For every three gallons of dirty water, the reverse osmosis system creates a gallon of drinkable water.

“You see them come with just about everything imaginable to fill up with water to take back to their homes,” Tech. Sgt. Romano Cedillos from the Phoenix Air National Guard told the American Forces Press Service.