Aid plea as Haiti death toll tops 700
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The interim president of Haiti, President Boniface Alexandre, yesterday appealed to world leaders for aid as the death toll from the country&#39;s second flooding disaster in four months reached more than 700.
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Port-Au-Prince - Nearly 250 people have died in Haiti in floods caused by tropical storm Jeanne, the spokesperson for the UN mission here told AFP on Monday.
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Severe flood damage has in two months affected more than 65,000 people in west Africa, making thousands homeless and wrecking infrastructure, the Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations said Friday.
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Relief workers in Haiti are warning about the growing desperation of flood victims in the aftermath of a tropical storm, Jeanne, that devastated the city of Gonaives a week ago, killing more than 1,100 people and leaving as many as 250,000 homeless.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- The death toll from a tropical storm that devastated parts of Haiti rose to 622 late yesterday 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.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The staggering death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne shot upward to an estimated 1,500 people Saturday, with 900 Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm drenched the homeless who are living on rooftops and sidewalks.    U.N...
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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  above 660.
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More than 550 people are dead in Haiti from flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne and aid workers said half of the northern coastal city of Gonaives was still underwater on Monday.
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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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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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New York, Sept. 22 (NNN): Haiti&#39;s president Boniface Alexandre on Tuesday appealed for aid to help the island nation in the aftermath of tropical storm Jeanne whose floods that have claimed nearly 700 lives and left another 1000 missing.
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In Gonaives, Haiti, story headlined &quot;Haiti flood death toll nears 700, likely to rise&quot; please read in first paragraph ... could rise above 660 ... instead of ... could rise about 660. By Joseph Guyler Delva.
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Â· Nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed Â· UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries
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With the death toll in Haiti by Tropical Storm Jeanne rising to more than 1,000 on Thursday, panic erupted in some disaster areas for fear of being unable to get food and water supplies, news from Haiti said.
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Relief workers battled rain and choppy seas Tuesday to deliver food and medicine to the country&#39;s northeast, while officials raised the death toll from last week&#39;s back-to-back storms to at least 740 people.
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The death toll from a series of earthquakes that hit central Africa rose Monday to 43 as a major aid operation for hundreds of injured and thousands of homeless gathered pace amid new aftershocks.
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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.