PORT-AU-PRINCE: Hurricane Matthew has left at least 10 dead in Haiti, a toll that may climb as the authorities re-establish contact with regions cut off by the storm, the interior ministry said Wednesday. The Caribbean’s worst storm in nearly a decade, Matthew pummeled Haiti with heavy rains and devastating winds that caused untold damage to the Americas’ poorest nation. “It’s a very partial toll because we are still receiving information we must take the time to confirm,” interior ministry spokesman Guillaume Albert Moleon told AFP, adding that two people have been reported missing. Initial helicopter observations over the southwestern city of Jeremie found a number of severely damaged houses, major farmland destruction and intense flooding. Emergency relief operations were hindered after the collapse of a bridge cut off the only road linking Port-au-Prince to the peninsula that makes up southern Haiti.

Source: New Strait Times October 06, 2016 00:00 UTC