Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Flood kills at least 245 in Caribbean
Emergency workers dumped scores of mud-caked corpses into a mass grave today as the reported death toll from flooding of rain-swollen rivers in the Dominican Republic and Haiti rose to at least 245. Frantic relatives used their bare hands to dig through the mud for loved ones missing after Monday's heavy rains lashed the island of Hispaniola, which is shared by the two countries. At least 130 corpses were counted in the Dominican town of Jimani, near the border with Haiti, after shacks in the nearby village of Malpaso were swept away by flooding along the Solie River. An Associated Press reporter saw at least 100 corpses in a hospital morgue before families bearing wooden and metal coffins arrived to claim them. Another 115 people were killed on the Haitian side in the towns of Jacmel and Fond Verrette. I hope nobody was planning on spending Shvuos there.
Emergency workers dumped scores of mud-caked corpses into a mass grave today as the reported death toll from flooding of rain-swollen rivers in the Dominican Republic and Haiti rose to at least 245. Frantic relatives used their bare hands to dig through the mud for loved ones missing after Monday's heavy rains lashed the island of Hispaniola, which is shared by the two countries. At least 130 corpses were counted in the Dominican town of Jimani, near the border with Haiti, after shacks in the nearby village of Malpaso were swept away by flooding along the Solie River. An Associated Press reporter saw at least 100 corpses in a hospital morgue before families bearing wooden and metal coffins arrived to claim them. Another 115 people were killed on the Haitian side in the towns of Jacmel and Fond Verrette. I hope nobody was planning on spending Shvuos there.
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