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> Floods kill at least 31 in Haiti - official
> Fri Oct 12 15:17:03 UTC 2007
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> PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Flooding triggered by torrential rains
> killed at least 23 people in a village in central Haiti on
> Thursday, a government official said on Friday.
>
> The loss of life in Cabaret, nestled in mountains about 19 miles
> (30 km) north of the capital Port-au-Prince, brought the toll from
> floods and mudslides across much of Haiti over the last two weeks
> to at least 31, civil protection officials said.
>
> Forecasters said on Friday there was no end in sight to the
> downpours lashing the Caribbean country and some of its neighbors.
>
> "In the Cabaret area alone, 23 people are confirmed dead but there
> could be more and we are still in the process of assessing the
> situation," Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime told local radio.
>
> He said efforts were under way to distribute food, water and other
> supplies to the village, where at least 1,000 people have been made
> homeless.
>
> Heavy rains have also caused havoc in Cuba and Jamaica.
>
> But Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, is far more
> vulnerable to deadly floods because about 90 percent of its forests
> have been cleared, mostly to make charcoal for cooking.
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> In 2004, flooding triggered by the passage of Tropical Storm Jeanne
> in September killed around 3,000 people in the port city of
> Gonaives, while spring flooding just a few months before had killed
> another 2,000 in the south of the country.
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