Dominican, Haiti floods kill hundreds

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.

At least 358 people were killed in Haiti, while another 144 people died in the Dominican Republic, officials said yesterday.

The two countries form the island of Hispaniola, which bore the brunt of 10 days of heavy rain storms across the Caribbean.