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World Food Programme Sends Emergency Food Aid to Hispaniola Flood Victims
WFP has initiated a rapid response to help families affected by the devastating floods in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
World Food Programme
- May 28, 2004
International Aid Arrives in Flood-Ravaged Haiti
Helicopters loaded with drinking water and medicine touched down in remote villages devastated by floods Friday as Haiti and the Dominican Republic struggled to recover from a disaster that left at least 1,000 dead and hundreds missing.
Associated Press
- May 28, 2004
Grief as Haitians and Dominicans Tally Flood Toll
Aid workers, soldiers and villagers struggled to save the living, find the lost and bury the dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday after floods that took everything in their path. Government officials in both nations said the confirmed death toll from the devastating floods reached nearly 900 on Thursday. But they said it might go as high as 2,000, with the greatest losses in Haiti, making it one of the worst natural disasters in Caribbean history.
New York Times
- May 28, 2004
Relief Teams Scramble as Caribbean Flood Toll Grows
Rescue workers rushed beans and rice, drinking water, chlorine tablets and first-aid kits on Thursday to a remote Haitian town submerged by floods that killed an estimated 2,000 people on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Reuters
- May 28, 2004
Oxfam warns of immeasurable humanitarian disaster in Caribbean as floods death toll rises above 800
International agency Oxfam has responded fast to the disastrous flooding on the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Oxfam International
- May 27, 2004
Storms kill hundreds in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands left homeless as floods and mudslides batter Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Christian Aid (UK)
- May 27, 2004
Hundreds killed or missing in Hispaniola floods
More than 500 people have died and hundreds more are missing as a result of the heavy rains and flooding that have lashed the Caribbean island of Hispaniola since last weekend.
International Red Cross / Red Crescent
- May 26, 2004
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