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Haiti in crisis after tropical storm claims more than 500 lives

                   
independent.co.uk
06-Sep-2008
        
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New PM pledges help as flood victims lie dead in the streets and a quarter of a million are made homeless Haiti faces a growing humanitarian crisis after receding floodwaters from tropical storm Hanna left hundreds of bodies on the ruined streets of the northern city of Gonaives. The death toll from the third major storm to hit the impoverished Caribbean country in recent weeks rose above 500 yesterday, with... [read full story]                    

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