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1999 Photo Contest, People in the News, 3rd prize
Photographer

Mike Stocker

The Sun-Sentinel

01 October, 1998

A man who had to flee with his wife and children on the family horse after a massive mudslide from the Casitas Vulcano. Hurricane Mitch devastated areas of Central America.

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