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Haiti floods kill six, damage thousands of homes
by Staff Writers
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) April 6, 2015


Toll in Chile floods rises to 26 dead
Santiago (AFP) April 6, 2015 - The death toll from flash floods that devastated Chile's normally arid north has risen to 26 and could increase further, with another 120 people still missing, officials said.

The Atacama region, home to the world's driest desert, and the neighboring city of Antofagasta were deluged by heavy rains on March 24 that swept away thousands of homes, leaving thick layers of muck and tens of thousands of devastated residents in their wake.

The National Emergency Office said in its latest update Sunday night that more than 2,500 people remained in emergency shelters, with more than 6,000 homes badly damaged and more than 2,000 completely destroyed.

President Michelle Bachelet, who pulled out of this week's Summit of the Americas in Panama to deal with the crisis, vowed "we will rebuild" on Saturday in her second visit to the region since the floods.

Health officials have warned there is a high risk of outbreaks of gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases because of the mud and lack of drinking water.

The first heavy rains of the wet season flooded parts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Price over the weekend, leaving at least six dead and damaging 8,000 homes, authorities said Monday.

Raging floodwaters swept two children aged three and seven to their deaths in the Delmas district of the capital, and a 24-year-old woman was killed when a church wall collapsed on her house.

Three more people died in the western, coastal Carrefour district of the city.

Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, is prey to torrential Caribbean storms and Port-au-Prince's garbage-choked drainage channels struggle with the worst downpours.

Some citizens are still living rough or in substandard housing five years after a devastating earthquakes killed more than 200,000 people and levelled entire neighborhoods.

The head of civil protection in the capital region, Nadia Lochard, said that more than 8,000 homes had been flooded in the latest rains, mostly in the Cite Soleil slum and Tabarre suburb.

Officials said the weather forecast looks less menacing for the remainder of the week, but Haiti's annual rainy season normally begins in April and more storms are expected.


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