At least 400 dead in hurricane-hit Haiti: senator

  • 8 years ago
At least 400 people are now known to have died as Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of Haiti's south, a local senator told AFP. Some 80 percent of the buildings in Jeremie, the capital of the southern department of Grand'Anse, with about 30,000 inhabitants, were destroyed, according to Jean-Michel Vigreux, director of the NGO Care Haiti.

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