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Death toll reaches 1,160 in Haitian Storm
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 11 - 08 - 2004

A thunderstorm drenched homeless people living on rooftops and sidewalks Saturday, adding to the woes of
victims of Tropical Storm Jeanne, who are
looting aid trucks and attacking food distribution centers
in desperation over the slow pace of relief.
Rescuers said they have recovered at least 1,160 bodies of
people killed in last weekend's storm and expect to find
hundreds more in mud and collapsed homes in
still-inaccessible areas. Some 300,000 are homeless and
another 1,250 people remain missing, most in the northwest
city of Gonaives. Officials say most of the missing can be
presumed dead _ washed out to sea or buried in storm
debris.
U.N. troops from Argentina fired smoke grenades Friday as
crowds of flood victims tried to break into a schoolyard
where CARE International was giving grain and water to an
orderly line of women. About 500 men, women and children
gathered outside the school tried to charge a gate, fled
the smoke, but returned in surges once the air cleared, according to a report of the Associated Press.
"We need everything _ bread, clothes, clean water,
food," said Mosau Alveus, 25, who waited hours from dawn
and got just a bag of grain.


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