At least more than 800 people have been confirmed dead in Haiti after the deadly Hurricane Matthew swept through the Island Nation.
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere has experienced a catastrophic natural occurrence that killed at least 877 people and left thousands wounded physically and emotionally. The death toll is expected to rise as more areas become accessible.
“One of our physicians on a helicopter over the hardest hit areas said there are villages that just don’t exist anymore,” Ralph McDaniel, executive director of Ayiti Air Anbilans, the country’s only helicopter ambulance service, said from Port au Prince to CNN
The storm hit the nation on Tuesday but it was until Thursday that bodies started showing up when water levels started receding. Most of the fatalities were in towns and fishing villages around the western end of Tiburon peninsula in Haiti’s southwest, with many victims killed by falling trees, flying debris and swollen rivers.
Authorities in Haiti postpone the presidential election scheduled for Sunday because of the calamity.
Hurricane Matthew has left 350,000 people in need of assistance. The country’s civil protection authority said that 186 people were injured and more than 61,000 people were in 192 temporary shelters.
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