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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Death toll rises to 42 as Haiti struggles to recover from floods

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A man wades through a street flooded after a heavy rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A man wades through a street flooded after a heavy rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

The death toll from the heavy floods that hit Haiti over the week­end has risen to 42, with an­oth­er 11 peo­ple miss­ing, au­thor­i­ties said Mon­day.

At least 85 peo­ple are in­jured, and more than 13,600 homes were flood­ed, forc­ing peo­ple to evac­u­ate, ac­cord­ing to Haiti’s Civ­il Pro­tec­tion Agency.

The rains pelt­ed Haiti’s west­ern, north­west­ern, south­east­ern and cen­tral re­gions, of­fi­cials said.

The weath­er has since im­proved, but many crops were dam­aged amid a spike in star­va­tion, and peo­ple are try­ing to find tem­po­rary shel­ters af­ter the rain turned roads in­to rush­ing rivers of brown wa­ter.

The World Food Pro­gram said tens of thou­sands of peo­ple have been af­fect­ed, with the great­est dam­age re­port­ed in Port-au-Prince’s met­ro­pol­i­tan area and in Haiti’s west­ern re­gion.

“A sig­nif­i­cant weath­er-in­duced event of this lev­el so ear­ly in the hur­ri­cane sea­son…rais­es con­cerns about the abil­i­ty to pro­vide a sus­tained re­sponse should ex­treme weath­er in­ci­dents con­tin­ue to oc­cur,” the agency warned.

Prime Min­is­ter Ariel Hen­ry has said he has asked for in­ter­na­tion­al help.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) —

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