Flood death toll passes 700 in Haiti
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Devastating floods in Haiti have claimed more than 700 lives and at least 1,000 people are missing. Tropical Storm Jeanne swept north of Haiti during the weekend, drenching the impoverished Caribbean nation
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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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Dozens of people were killed in floods throughout Haiti after tropical storm Jeanne lashed the Caribbean nation during the weekend.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Floods from Tropical  Storm Jeanne killed 57 people in Haiti and many more were  missing in the Caribbean nation on Sunday as the storm swirled  in the Atlantic east of the Bahamas, a civil protection  official said.
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GONAIVES, Haiti  - Survivors of devastating  flooding in Haiti wandered mud-clogged streets in search of  food on Tuesday and officials said the death toll could rise  about 660.
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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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The number of deaths from floods in Haiti caused by tropical storm Jeanne has risen sharply to 1,970, with 884 still missing, officials say.
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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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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - Haiti began burying  hundreds of flood victims in mass graves on Wednesday while  emergency food was distributed to some of the thousands of  people made homeless by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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The death toll in Haiti from the flooding that has followed Tropical Storm Jeanne shot up to at least 1,500 yesterday, with hundreds of Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 622 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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The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,071 and could reach 2,000, the government&#39;s civil protection agency said Wednesday.
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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.
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Dozens have died in Haiti as a result of floods accompanying a tropical storm which swept through the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
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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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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 Wednesday.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to more than 700 Tuesday, with about 600 of them in Gonaives, and officials said they expected to find more dead and estimated tens of thousands of people were homeless.    Waterlines up to 10 feet high on Gonaives' buildings marked the worst of the storm that sent water gushing down denuded hills, destroying homes and crops in the Artibonite region that is Haiti's breadbasket...