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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mar 01 2016 – At least one person is dead and four are missing in Haiti after rains triggered mudslides and flooding that damaged more than 10,000 homes, the country’s Civil Protection Office said Monday.
Edgard Celestin, a spokesman with the office, said a man was helping a person cross the Dame Marie River in the country’s Grand’Anse Department when both were swept away by the river’s overflowing waters. One body was found, and the other person is still missing, Celestin said. Also, three farmers went missing in the bad weather.
The rains also triggered a mudslide in Port-de-Paix. But the heaviest damage to property was in northern Haiti, where 10,000 homes between Cap-Haitien and Limonade were damaged by flooding, said Jean-Henri Petite, coordinator of the Civil Protection Office for northern Haiti.
