Haiti Place Haiti floods kill six, damage thousands of homes

News Information

  • NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place Staff
  • NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 13, 2015
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  • Category : Haiti News
  • Description : PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) –The first heavy rains of the wet season flooded parts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Price over the weekend, leaving at least six dead and damaging 8,000 homes, authorities said Monday.
  • Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti

Overview

  • Raging floodwaters swept two children aged three and seven to their deaths in the Delmas district of the capital, and a 24-year-old woman was killed when a church wall collapsed on her house.

    Three more people died in the western, coastal Carrefour district of the city.

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