CIVIL PROTECTION DIRECTOR: AT LEAST 5 DEAD, 1 MISSING AFTER STORM STRIKES SOUTHERN HAITI
The Associated Press (CP)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's civil protection chief says five are dead and another person missing after a storm struck the country's southern peninsula.
Civil protection head Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste says the deaths were caused Friday in the western areas of the mountainous southern peninsula by rushing rivers and mudslides.
More than a dozen houses were struck by a landslide. More than 300 people were evacuated from flooding rivers.
Radio Kiskeya also reported damage to farms and roads.
The area was not seriously affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and southeastern Haiti.
Haitian officials issued a yellow alert for further flooding across the country on Saturday.
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