Minister of Interior and Territorial Collectivities Paul Antoine Bien-aime of Haiti
Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said 23 bodies had been found on Thursday in Cabaret, just north of the capital, and 12 were missing after flood waters hit their hillside homes, sweeping them away in the current.
homes, sweeping them away in the current.
At least 23 people have died near Haiti's capital following heavy rains that triggered floods, Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said on Friday.
Bien-Aime said 23 bodies were found Thursday in Cabaret, north of the capital, after floodwaters hit their hillside homes, sweeping them away in the current.
and officials were searching for more.
Bien-Aime said 23 bodies were found on Thursday in Cabaret, north of the capital, after floodwaters hit their hillside homes.
It’s really a major disaster,†Haitian Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said yesterday from Gonaives in a radio interview.
Bien-Aime said emergency supplies were being sent to Cabaret, where at least 1,000 people have been made homeless.
Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said efforts were underway to distribute food, water and other supplies to the village, where at least 1,000 people have been made homeless.
People waited to help along the shores of the newly formed lake, and Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said people stranded on rooftops were becoming increasingly desperate.
Bien-Aime said the state was bringing in a supply of food and other assistance, and that the government plans to build dams and move people who live nearby the swollen river.
Haitian Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime was on the way to Gonaives to supervise rescue operations, Jean-Baptiste said.
It is a great movement of panic in the city, Bien-Aime said from a UN.
The series of storms -- two tropical storms and two hurricanes, including Ike which grazed Haiti's waterlogged northwest last weekend -- "is the largest catastrophe to strike the country in several years," Interior Minister Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime said at a news conference.