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PORT-AU-PRINCE: The death toll from Hurricane Ike has risen from 20 to 47 in the Haitian village of Cabaret, Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis said on Sunday, as the impoverished island suffered from the ravages of a succession of devastating storms.
Two swollen rivers flooded the town, destroying and damaging many homes, a legislator from the village said.
The toll adds to the 500 deaths already recorded by the United Nations over the past week as massive storm flooding caused a humanitarian crisis that was worsening by the day.
Damaged infrastructure and continuing rains left aid organisations struggling to bring emergency assistance to hundreds of thousands of storm victims.
- AFP/so
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