Haiti takes refuge in mass graves

Haiti takes refuge in mass graves

World October 10, 2016 07:00

port - Authorities in the Haitian city of Jeremie have forced mass graves created in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. According to a government official began to dissolve bodies.

The hurricane reached Haiti on Thursday and caused enormous damage. As was previously reported that just 80 percent of the houses would be destroyed in Jérémie. Some 1.4 million Haitians in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations.

It is still unclear how many people did not survive the storm. The official death toll in the country is 336. Reuters news agency calculated on the basis of information from local officials certainly be regrettable thousand fatalities.

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