Hurricane Matthew: Hundreds dead in Haiti storm disaster


SUBMITTED BY: mikevault

DATE: Oct. 7, 2016, 7:24 a.m.

FORMAT: Text only

SIZE: 679 Bytes

HITS: 660

  1. The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew - the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade - has soared to more than 300, officials say.
  2. Some 50 people were reported killed in the town of Roche-a-Bateau alone.
  3. The nearby city of Jeremie saw 80% of its buildings levelled. In Sud province 30,000 homes were destroyed.
  4. The hurricane, now a Category Three storm with sustained winds of 120mph (193km/h), is heading towards the US state of Florida.
  5. At 03:00 local time (07:00 GMT) Matthew was still off the Florida coast, centred about 37 miles (60km) east of Vero Beach and was moving north-west at about 14mph (22km/h), the National Hurricane Center said.

comments powered by Disqus