Death Toll From Haiti Floods Tops 1,070
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Trucks dumped scores of bodies into a mass grave in this flood-ravaged city still littered with corpses, as officials said the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and could double again.    There was no funeral ceremony when the bodies were dumped into a 14-foot-deep hole at sunset Wednesday...
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MIAMI (CBS) The death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 in Haiti, with officials warning it could double again, while the reinvigorated system, again a hurricane, has changed course and could strike the US mainland.
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Port-u-Prince, Sept. 20 (NNN): Nearly 100 people in Haiti have died due to devastating floods in the wake of tropical storm Jeanne, which swept through the Caribbean in recent days.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne shot up to an estimated 1,500 Saturday, with hundreds of Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm drenched the homeless who are living on rooftops and sidewalks.    U.N...
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Rescuers dug through mud and ruined homes for bodies Tuesday, expecting the death toll of more than 600 from Tropical Storm Jeanne to rise even further, with half the crowded northern city of Gonaives still under water from the weekend's devastating winds and rain.    Gonaives was hardest hit in the latest tragedy to beset Haiti in a year of revolts, military interventions and devastating floods...
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Workers dug new mass graves for corpses that still littered this flood-ravaged city Thursday as the death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 1,070 and residents grew increasingly agitated from a lack of food and drinkable water.    Health workers feared an epidemic from the unburied bodies, raw sewage in drinking water and infections from injuries...
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 573 late Monday as search crews recovered hundreds of bodies carried away by raging weekend floods or buried by mud or the ruins of their homes, officials said.    The bodies of at least 500 people killed by Tropical Storm Jeanne were filling morgues in Gonaives, according to Toussaint Kongo-Doudou, a spokesman for the U.N...
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At least 175,000 Haitians have been affected by flooding caused by a tropical storm, relief workers say.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - More than 300 people died in floods and mudslides in Haiti sparked by Tropical Storm Jeanne over the weekend, the United Nations and local officials said Monday.
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The death toll caused by devastating floods in Haiti has climbed to over 1,600 people. Another 800 remain missing. Hurricane Jeanne is the latest tragedy to hit Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas.
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GONAIVES -- The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said yesterday. Rescuers counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud, and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone by last night. Another 58 bodies have been recovered elsewhere in Haiti's northwest province, Deslorges said. He ...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - The death toll in  disastrous flooding in Haiti has risen to some 1,650, with  about 800 people still missing, a government official said on  Sunday.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from floods unleashed by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose sharply to nearly 2,000 people, with many still missing, as officials said they found hundreds more bodies in Haiti's devastated northwestern region.    Officials, who had previously put the toll at 1,550 dead and about 900 missing, could not immediately provide specifics on the higher toll announced Sunday night, but said hundreds more bodies were found in recent days in areas outside the hard-hit town of Gonaives...
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Workers used dump trucks to empty more than 100 bodies into a 14-foot-deep hole on Wednesday &#151; the first mass grave for the more than 1,070 flood victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne. Bystanders shrieked, held their noses against the stench and demanded that officials collect bodies in waterlogged fields. The government late Wednesday said up to 1,250 people were still missing and that the death toll could rise to 2,000 people.
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By staff writers. THE death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne has reportedly risen to 57 in Haiti, with many more missing. Reuters today quoted civil protection director Alta Jean-Baptiste as saying the victims
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(09/20/04)-- The death toll has been going up in Haiti, along with the floodwaters brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne. The storm is blamed for at least 109 deaths there, and officials expect that to rise.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - Survivors of devastating  flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of  food on Tuesday as officials said that in addition to 662  people killed, more than 1,000 were missing.