Floods’ Death Toll Rises to 1,650
From Times Wire Reports
The death toll from disastrous flooding in Haiti has risen to about 1,650, with 800 people still missing, government official Carl Murat Cantave said.
Hurricane Jeanne lashed Haiti with torrential rains as a tropical storm a week ago.
A spokeswoman for the World Food Program, Anne Poulsen, said that 120 tons of food had been distributed.
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