12 killed in Haiti as heavy rains damage hundreds of homes
AP News
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Authorities say heavy rains in northwestern Haiti killed at least 12 people, flooded farmland and damaged hundreds of homes.
Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency says the rains began on Saturday and continued through Monday.
The rains flooded a local hospital and more than 900 homes.
They also destroyed a bridge, dozens of roads and crops in a country where more than half of its nearly 12 million inhabitants face high levels of acute food insecurity.
Local authorities say they cannot access communities that urgently need food and other basic goods because roads are flooded.
The hardest hit towns include Port-de-Paix, Saint Louis du Nord and Anse-a-Foleur.
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Heavy rains in northwestern Haiti kill 12 people and damage hundreds of homes