Caribbean flood toll grows

[desdemona]

Relief teams scramble as Caribbean flood toll grows

27 May 2004 21:01:43 GMT

By Joseph Guyler Delva

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 27 (Reuters) - Rescue workers rushed beans and rice, drinking water, chlorine tablets and first-aid kits on Thursday to a remote Haitian town submerged by floods that killed an estimated 2,000 people on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

Across the border in the Dominican Republic, authorities prepared for an aerial fumigation to prevent disease in hard-hit Jimani, a town where flood waters crashed through in the night and killed hundreds of men, women and children, dumping some of their bodies into a lake full of crocodiles.

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[Redneck4sure]

It's sad really. Those countries are in extreme poverty and now this happens. :(

[Bombardier]

Yep, this is sad :(

[method77]

Saw that on the news. Sad

[method77]

Not a very good time to be there. Those people are extremely unlucky...

Earthquake shakes flood-hit town

[Redneck4sure]

extremely unlucky indeed.