9 dead, 25 injured in Haiti due to Hurricane Dean
23/8/2007 15:48
Hurricane Dean has now left 9 people dead, 25 injured and one missing in
Haiti, Haitian authorities said yesterday.
The storm has also destroyed 1,167
homes, left 8,244 homeless and caused serious damage to the nation's
agriculture, the authorities said.
The worst hit area in Haiti was
Chardonieres in the south, where three people were killed, the biggest death
toll in any single region.
Dean also killed six people in the Dominican
Republic, two in Dominica, two in Jamaica and one in St. Lucia.
Dean reached
the Mexican area of Tecolutla in the eastern state of Veracruz yesterday. It is
expected to reach Mexico's Western Sierra Madre and cause rains in 20 of
Mexico's 32 states. There were no reports of death in Mexico so far.
xinhua
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