Hurricane forces Haiti refugees to flee again

HURRICANE Tomas flooded the earthquake- shattered remains of a Haitian town yesterday, forcing families who had already lost their homes in one disaster to flee another.

In the country’s capital, quake refugees resisted calls to abandon flimsy tarpaulin and tent camps.

Driving winds and a storm surge battered Leogane, a seaside town west of Port-au-Prince that was near the epicentre of the January 12 earthquake and was 90% destroyed.