Haiti: first deadly toll of tropical storm Laura

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Tropical Storm Laura continues its progression towards the Gulf of Mexico where Hurricane Marco is already approaching the coast of Louisiana. The bad weather caused by Laura caused significant flooding in the Caribbean and particularly in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. In this country, the official death toll has grown: the Haitian authorities now deplore 20 deaths.

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A baby, an eight-year-old boy, eight women and ten men. All these people died on Sunday during the passage of storm Laura over Haiti which particularly affected the departments of the South-East, South and West where the capital Port-au-Prince is located.

And this assessment is still only partial because five people are still missing: they are two children and three adults, reports our correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Amélie Baron .

On the material level nearly 450 houses were flooded, more than a hundred damaged and fifteen were completely destroyed by the bad weather. In the South, several bridges have been weakened making a whole part of the coast inaccessible. The impact of torrential rains on the agricultural sector remains undetermined, overflights of flooded areas are planned, but many small producers have lost the harvest of their plots under the water.

Preview in images of the situation yesterday Sunday in the capital.

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Laura continues on her way to the United States

After killing at least 24 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, tropical storm Laura, which is expected to become a hurricane on Tuesday, swept through western Cuba on Monday - where it did not claim any casualties - and is expected to take over. direction of the United States, already threatened by Marco, demoted from hurricane to storm.

The fact that two hurricanes, or nearby weather phenomena, follow each other so closely in the Gulf of Mexico is extremely rare, experts say. More than 100 oil rigs have been evacuated in the Gulf of Mexico in anticipation of the storm, AFP reports.

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