Haiti death toll rockets as receding waters reveal more bodies

Haiti's death toll has soared after rescue crews began reaching remote corners cut off when Hurricane Matthew slammed into the country's south-west peninsula - the first Category 4 storm to hit the country in more than 50 years.

Haiti death toll rockets as receding waters reveal more bodies

Haiti's death toll has soared after rescue crews began reaching remote corners cut off when Hurricane Matthew slammed into the country's south-west peninsula - the first Category 4 storm to hit the country in more than 50 years.

At least 283 people died in just one part of Haiti's south west, the region that bore the brunt of the storm, Emmanuel Pierre, an Interior Ministry co-ordinator in Les Cayes, said.

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