PARADWIP, India (AP) - Officials set fire to hundreds of bodies stacked on the beach Thursday, hoping to stave off disease in eastern India, where the first significant aid was finally beginning to arrive a week after a devastating storm. Among the dead were migrant laborers who had fled crippling poverty in their villages to seek jobs in the port city of Paradwip. The huge shantytown where they lived, located dangerously close to the sea, was wiped out by the giant waves generated by the cyclone. Since migrant workers made up most of the shantytown's residents, the real death toll in Paradwip may never be known because there are few records and unclaimed bodies were quickly cremated. Rescue workers expect the number to reach several thousand. Some have estimated 10,000.