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Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew:
Hundreds dead in Haiti
storm disaster
Some 50
people were reported killed in the town of Roche-a-Bateau alone
The nearby
city of Jeremie
saw 80% of its buildings levelled. In Sud province 30,000 homes were destroyed.
Category Three Matthew, with sustained winds of 120mph
(193km/h), is heading up the coastline of the US state of Florida but has not made landfall.
It remains
unclear whether it will do so.
At 08:00 local time (12:00 GMT) Matthew was off the Florida coast, about 45 miles east of Daytona
Beach and moving north-west at about 13mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
One Senator
told AFP news agency that at least 400 people had died. Reuters news agency put
the death toll at 478, quoting Haitian officials, but this has not been
independently confirmed.
Complete BBC article
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