Hurricane Matthew arrived thrashing at the door of Rosemika’s house in Croix-des-Bouquets at 6am on Tuesday. Water everywhere!’ It had completely surrounded us.”Rosemika and her brothers and sisters ran, terrified, to the sanctuary of the hills. Many victims were killed by falling trees, flying debris and swollen rivers when Matthew hit, bringing winds of 145mph. “Diarrhoea and cholera are a looming threat with flooding causing sewage to flow into the streets,” said Yolette Etienne, ActionAid’s country director. Hurricane Matthew: Haiti needs vaccines to stop deadly cholera spreading | Dr Anita Zaidi and Helen Matzger Read moreYvonne Helle, the UN Development Programme’s Haiti director, said people in Grand’Anse had lost everything - their houses, their fruit trees and their fields.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2016 16:41 UTC