Haiti, Oct 4, 2016 – Not less than three persons have been killed and several others declared missing as Hurricane Mathew hits the Caribbean nation of Haiti, authorities have said.
We gathered that the storm which hit Haiti at 145-mph wind speed also caused cruise ships to change course and prompted the governors of Florida and North Carolina to declare state of emergency.
Meanwhile over 700 families have already been evacuated by the United States from the Naval Base station in Guantanamo, Cuba as a result of Hurricane Mathew.
Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency reported that coastal towns of Anse-d’Hainault and Tiburon were flooded.
Director of Communication in the Ministry of Interior, Guillaume Albert Moleon said one fisherman died on Sunday.
According to reports, a second fisherman is presumed dead, but his body has not been recovered while a teenage boy was said to have died in a landslide as he was cleaning a drain behind his house, Michelle Forbes, deputy director for the National Emergency Management Office has said.
John Hasse, the humanitarian aid agency World Vision’s national director in Haiti, said 400 workers were available to help rural residents whose poorly constructed houses could be leveled by the storm.
“It’s not safe to stay in your house,” Laura Sewell, CARE’s assistant country director for Haiti, told CNN. “It’s not a normal rainstorm. People need to move to shelters immediately.”
The number of people who have sought refuge in shelters in the southern and west parts of Haiti now stands at more than 6,400, Civil Protection tweeted.
