And they say this is an all-inclusive holiday."Robby Beech, a roofer from Liverpool, was sharing two beds with his nine relatives. "We came over here for a couple of weeks in the sun and now look at it," he said. "It's absolute chaos.""This is my first trip outside the United States and then this happens," said Rod Jones, a teacher from Michigan as he sat nervously in a blacked-out hotel room clutching a pillow. I'm just going to keep praying."Elegant ballrooms played host to tourists, while conference rooms were transformed into dormitories. Hotels squeezed in 15 people per room and public buildings such as schools and gymnasiums took in an estimated 60,000 people.More than 25,000 local residents and foreign tourists had already been moved over the weekend from Cancun when Emily hit in the early hours of yesterday.

At one stage the hurricane was packing winds of up to 135mph, making it a category 4 storm, but these calmed to 100mph as moved inland.. The slaughter of hundreds of civilians by suicide bombers shows that a "genocidal war" is threatening Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country's most influential Shia cleric, warned yesterday. So far he has persuaded most of his followers not to respond in kind against the Sunni, from whom the bombers are drawn, despite repeated massacres of Shia. But sectarian divisions between Shia and Sunni are deepening across Iraq after the killing of 18 children in the district of New Baghdad last week and the death of 98 people caught by the explosion of a gas tanker in the market town of Musayyib. Many who died were visiting a Shia mosque. There are also calls for the formation of militias to protect Baghdad neighbourhoods. Khudayr al-Khuzai, a Shia member of parliament, said the time had come to "bring back popular militias". He added: "The plans of the interior and the defence ministries to impose security in Iraq have failed to stop the terrorists."Against the wishes of the Grand Ayatollah, who has counselled restraint, some Shia have started retaliatory killings of members of the former regime, most of whom but not all are Sunni.

Some carrying out the attacks appear to belong to the 12,000-strong paramilitary police commandos Mystery surrounds many killings. A former general in Saddam Hussein's army called Akram Ahmed Rasul al-Bayati and his two sons, Ali, a policeman, and Omar were arrested by police commandos 10 days ago. Omar was released and one of his uncles paid $7,000 for the release of the other two. But when he went to get them he saw them taken out of a car and shot dead.Fear of Shia death squads, perhaps secretly controlled by the Badr Brigade, the leading Shia militia, frightens the Sunni The patience of the Shia is wearing very thin.