100 missing as Dennis wreaks chaos through Haiti
At least 100 people were missing in Haiti’s south-western peninsula following floods, mudslides and the collapse of a bridge triggered by Hurricane Dennis, a UN official said today.
There were 10 confirmed deaths.
UN peacekeepers and local rescue workers had been searching for 40 people reported missing after an overflowing river tore down a bridge in the south-western town of Grand Goave, said Commander Mark Breaud, of the UN civilian police for the region.
The bodies of five people killed in the incident were recovered.
Families and residents reported at least another 60 people missing from flooding and mudslides, many of them in remote, mountainous communities that UN troops and rescuers have been unable to reach, Breaud said.
Dennis sideswiped dangerously deforested Haiti on Thursday. Civil Protection officials said at least four people were killed in the southern town of Jacmel but could not immediately provide details.
The 10th death occurred when an uprooted palm tree crushed a hut in the south-western town of Les Cayes.
