Tomas soaks quake homeless camps as it passes Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas soaked crowded Haitian earthquake survivors’ camps with overnight rain as the re-strengthened storm headed north on Friday between Cuba and Haiti amid fears of flooding and landslides. An earthquake survivor walks in the rain early in the morning in a provisional camp in downtown Port-au-Prince November 5, 2010. (REUTERS/ Eduardo Munoz) One person died overnight trying to cross a river in the Grande-Anse region southwest of the capital and some flooding was reported in the south coast town of Les Cayes, Alta Jean-Baptiste, Haiti’s civil protection director, said. In the capital Port-au-Prince, still scarred from a devastating Jan. 12…
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Tomas soaks quake homeless camps as it passes Haiti
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