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Survivors in eastern Uganda have shared terrifying accounts with the BBC.

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Hopkins told Demme, “the quietness is the most terrifying part — it goes back to childhood, going to a room, turning on a light, there’s a big spider on the wall, quiet, waiting.”

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“I was terrified of these appointments, but I never missed a single appointment,” she said in the declaration.

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Or as Lecter, still for me the most terrifying of characters more than 30 years on.

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It ripped a terrifying path through the Caribbean, leaving at least 31 dead in Haiti, including 10 children who drowned in heavy flooding, and ravaged parts of Cuba and the Dominican Republic.

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