Floods Kill Hundreds as Storm Ravages Haiti
*THIS FROM A NEW REPORT THIS EVENING*
Bloated bodies and weeping relatives filled mortuaries today as Tropical Storm Jeanne killed more than 570 Haitians with the toll expected to rise.
The devastation marked yet another tragedy for Haiti in a year marked by revolts, military interventions and deadly floods.
The bodies of two children were found on a pavement yesterday in Gonaives, where one third of the dead brought to the hospital were children. More than 500 people had died in the sprawling northern city, according to Touissant Kongo-Doudou, a spokesman for the United Nations mission.
Another 17 died in the nearby town of Terre Neuve, agriculture official Madiro Morilus said, and another 56 were recovered in the northern city of Port-de-Paix, according to Kongo-Doudou.
“The water is high. As it goes down, we expect to find more bodies,” Kongo-Doudou said.
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*THIS FROM A NEW REPORT THIS EVENING*
Bloated bodies and weeping relatives filled mortuaries today as Tropical Storm Jeanne killed more than 570 Haitians with the toll expected to rise.
The devastation marked yet another tragedy for Haiti in a year marked by revolts, military interventions and deadly floods.
The bodies of two children were found on a pavement yesterday in Gonaives, where one third of the dead brought to the hospital were children. More than 500 people had died in the sprawling northern city, according to Touissant Kongo-Doudou, a spokesman for the United Nations mission.
Another 17 died in the nearby town of Terre Neuve, agriculture official Madiro Morilus said, and another 56 were recovered in the northern city of Port-de-Paix, according to Kongo-Doudou.
“The water is high. As it goes down, we expect to find more bodies,” Kongo-Doudou said.
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