Haiti Begins Mass Burials of Flood Victims
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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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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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GONAIVES, Haiti - Bloated corpses and weeping relatives filled morgues in Haiti after Tropical Storm Jeanne left at least 622 people dead, another tragedy on this Caribbean island in a year marked by revolts, military interventions and deadly floods. The death toll was expected to rise...
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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 Touissant Kong-Doudou, a spokesman for the U.N...
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Haitians surrounded by the destruction of Hurricane Jeanne prayed for the 1,500 dead during church services yesterday and gave thanks
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HAITI&#39;S official death toll from tropical storm Jeanne soared to more than 1070 yesterday and could rise to 2000, officials announced as aid workers started mass burials.
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Locals look at flood victims killed at the La Providence Hospital, in Gonaives, Haiti, Sept. 21, 2004, after floods from Tropical Storm Jeanne swept the town killing at least 620 people.
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Tropical Storm Jeanne brought mudslides and flooding to Haiti, killing at least 90 people in the last few days as emergency services struggle to reach families stranded in the worst hit areas.
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Surrounded by the devastation of a storm that killed hundreds of their countrymen, Haitians took time to groom themselves for church Sunday, braiding little girls' hair and polishing shoes.
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Workers used dumptrucks to empty scores of bodies into a four-metre-deep hole Wednesday - the first mass grave for more than 800 flood victims - as bystanders shrieked, held noses against the stench and demanded officials collect
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Dead bodies do not spread disease but  mass burials after disasters, such as this week's killer floods  in Haiti, cause unnecessary suffering to surviving relatives,  the United Nations' health agency said Friday. Citing mass  graves being dug in the Caribbean island, where over 1,000  people were killed by tropical storm Jeanne, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said it was a wasteful misconception that  cadavers caused epidemics.
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HAITIANS have attacked aid trucks and people carrying scarce food and water as workers struggle to bury thousands of victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue Tuesday. Carcasses of pigs, goats and dogs and pieces of smashed furniture floated in muddy streams that once were the streets of this battered city...
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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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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll across Haiti from the weekend deluges brought by Tropical Storm Jeanne was at 620, with some 500 of them in Gonaives, but officials said on Tuesday they expected to find more dead.    Blood swirled in knee-deep floodwaters as workers stacked bodies outside the hospital morgue...
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GONAIVES, Haiti Sept. 23, 2004 - 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
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Rescuers are pulling bodies from the main morgue of some of the 620 victims of floodwaters from Tropical Storm Jeanne, which is still running knee-deep in the streets after four days carrying carcasses, smashed-up furniture and pieces of zinc roof.