THE caskets of dozens of children lined Jimani’s streets after floods swept away villages and sent families into the darkness and mud in a frantic search for loved ones among the 500 dead and hundreds missing.

The death toll from flooding in the Dominican Republic and Haiti rose to at least 363 today as villagers desperately searched for loved ones feared swept away by the torrent of mud from swollen rivers.

RESCUE workers dumped 60 corpses into a mass grave yesterday as the death toll rose to 270 in floods that swept away a small village on the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti.

Rescue workers dumped 60 bloated corpses into a mass grave today as the toll continued to rise in floods that swept away a small village on the Dominican Republic’s border with Haiti.

Around 100 people died when floods unleashed by torrential rains swept through a small farming town in the Dominican Republic, officials said.