Hurricane Matthew continues to rage in the Caribbean. After touching Haiti and then Cuba on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, it reached the Bahamas and threatens the American coast.
A death toll of nine constantly revised upwards. The number of Matthew's victims is not final. It is constantly being revised and increased. The most recent reported nine victims: five in Haiti and four in the Dominican Republic. These figures are likely to worsen, especially in southern Haiti, cut off from the rest of the country after the collapse of a bridge on Tuesday. Some regions may not be accessible until this weekend.
According to the director for Haiti of the NGO Heifer International, Les Cayes, the country's third city, is "very badly damaged. Most of the roofs of houses, shops and petrol stations are gone ”. "Businesses near the ocean have completely disappeared," said Hervil Cherubin, stressing that farms (plantain, rice, beans) "have disappeared" and that farm animals have died. Schools will be closed until Monday.
Another risk concerns the management of the aftermath, that is to say the days and weeks that follow, since serious disturbances of the water system could go hand in hand with the spread of diseases like cholera. . _AF
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