Ferocious hurricane once again, Ike terminates the lives of at least 58, cut off aid to parts of Haiti - August 7, 2008 | |
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A dead body lies on the ground after Hurricane Ike hit the area in Cabaret, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Twenty four people, including seventeen children, drowned overnight in Cabaret north of Port-au-Prince, according to Osner Desulme, a funeral home's director, raising Haiti's overall death toll to 262 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Nicolas Garcia) | |
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People forming long lines at a food distribution center in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garcia) | |
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Flood victims walk outside a food distribution center in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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Residents wade through a flooded street after heavy rains in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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Women wait in line at a food distribution center during flooding in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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A woman holds her baby as they wait outside a food distribution center where Bolivian UN peacekeepers guard the entrance in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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Flood victims push past security to enter a food distribution center in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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An Haitian girl rests on her mother's legs in a temporary shelter at the Bicentenary High School in Saint Marc on September 6. A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Haiti after flooding from Hanna left more than 500 people dead and thousands in desperate need of food, clean water and shelter.(AFP/Yuri Cortez) | |
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A woman holds bottles of water she received at a food distribution center in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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An Haitian boy stands at the door of a temporary shelter at the Bicentenary High School in Saint Marc, some 96 kilometers north of Port Au Prince on September 6. With severe flooding, hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands lacking food and basic provisions, Haiti has been hit badly so far this hurricane season, with four severe storms in less than four weeks.(AFP/File/Yuri Cortez) | |
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Two U.N. Argentine peacekeepers help a woman walk into a food distribution center in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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Residents leave the area in the back of a pick-up truck after heavy rains in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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Residents stand on the second floor of a house damage by Hurricane Ike in Cabaret, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Five adults and five children drowned overnight in Cabaret north of Port-au-Prince, civil protection director Marie-Alta Jean Baptiste said, raising Haiti's overall death toll to 262 from four tropical storms in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Nicolas Garcia) | |
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Haitians cross a river after floods near Port-au-Prince September 7, 2008. Officials said at least 61 people had died in floods in impoverished Haiti on top of 500 killed last week by Tropical Storm Hanna.REUTERS/ Evens Felix (HAITI) | |
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Residents wade through a flooded street after heavy rains in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Hurricane Ike damaged most of the homes on Grand Turk island as it roared onto the Bahamas, raked Haiti's flooded cities with rain and threatened the Florida Keys on its way to Cuba as a ferocious Category 4 storm Sunday.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) | |
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U.N. peacekeepers help Haitian children cross a river after floods near Port-au-Prince September 7, 2008. Officials said at least 61 people had died in floods in impoverished Haiti on top of 500 killed last week by Tropical Storm Hanna.REUTERS/ Evens Felix (HAITI) | |
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U.N. peacekeepers help Haitians cross a river after floods near Port-au-Prince September 7, 2008. Officials said at least 61 people had died in floods in impoverished Haiti on top of 500 killed last week by Tropical Storm Hanna.REUTERS/ Evens Felix (HAITI) | |
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Haitians cross a river after floods near Port-au-Prince September 7, 2008. Officials said at least 61 people had died in floods in impoverished Haiti on top of 500 killed last week by Tropical Storm Hanna.REUTERS/ Evens Felix (HAITI) | |
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