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Haitian death toll from Tropical Storm Hanna rises to 136
The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Hanna has risen 136, the head of the civil protection office said Thursday.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:58 September 5, 2008
Port-Au-Prince: The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Hanna has risen 136, the head of the civil protection office said on Thursday.
Officials had earlier given a toll of 61 dead after Hanna pounded northern Haiti Monday and Tuesday.
The new toll, made public late Thursday by Alta Jean-Baptiste, head of Haiti's civil protection office, said that 102 of those who died were killed in northern Haiti, mostly in Gonaives.
Jean-Baptiste also said that flooding and landslides triggered by the heavy rain forced nearly 10,000 people into shelters.
The figure does not include the thousands evacuated from Gonaives, which has a population of 300,000.
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