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Puerto Rico Sacks Two More Officials Over Unused Hurricane Maria Supplies, Government Admits There May Be More Warehouses Full Of Rotting Aid Items

Emily Zanotti
Puerto Rico Sacks Two More Officials Over Unused Hurricane Maria Supplies, Government Admits There May Be More Warehouses Full Of Rotting Aid Items
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Puerto Rico’s governor sacked two more officials Sunday after residents of the town of Ponce, wracked by a pair of natural disasters within just over a year of each other, discovered a warehouse full of bottled water, baby diapers, non-perishable food, and other aid items delivered in the wake of Hurricane Maria and never distributed.

“The pallets of bedding, food and medical supplies sat wrapped in plastic and unused in a warehouse for more than two years while Puerto Ricans suffered through the aftermath of a devastating hurricane and, recently, an earthquake,” Fox News reported Monday. “Now their discovery has triggered a political firestorm.”

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