Haiti Hurricane Death Toll Reaches To Nearly 900
MEP: The number of victims of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti, neared 900 on Friday as reports from hard-to-access remote southwestern areas continued coming.
A total of 350,000 Haitians require immediate assistance, according to the UN.
Tens of thousands made homeless and crops destroyed in the impoverished Caribbean nation’s breadbasket region.
Hurricane Matthew has now been downgraded to a Category 2 storm, after its winds slowed to 175 km/h as it moved through Southern US cities.
Rural clinics overflowed with patients whose wounds including broken bones had not been treated since the storm hit on Tuesday.
Food was scarce, and at least seven people died of cholera, likely because of flood water mixing with sewage.
Hurricane Matthew is currently battering the coastline of the US state of Florida.
At least three towns reported dozens of fatalities, including the hilly farming village of Chantal, whose mayor said 86 people perished, mostly when trees crushed houses. He said 20 more people were missing.
‘A tree fell on the house and flattened it, the entire house fell on us. I couldn’t get out,’ said driver Jean-Pierre Jean-Donald, 27, who had been married for a year.
