Heavy rains threaten the waterlogged southern border of Haiti and Dominican Republic even as rescue workers rush to collect decomposing bodies and reach villagers cut off days ago when torrents and mudslides buried entire communities.

AMERICAN and Canadian troops yesterday rushed to a town left completely submerged by flooding and where health officials feared 1,000 people could be dead in that town alone.

Haitians turned to US-led troops and international agencies for help as the death toll climbed to about 900 following floods that ravaged Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Hundreds more were missing and presumed dead.