The darkness that shrouded Haiti while Hurricane Matthew hammered
the island lifted Friday — and the true extent of the damage was laid
bare as the death toll reportedly soared past 800.
The first reports trickling in from the remote
southwestern peninsula hit hardest by the storm were dire. The United
Nations warned that more than a million people were directly affected by
Matthew and that some 350,000 people were in desperate need of
humanitarian assistance.
Reuters reported Friday afternoon that more than 842 were dead and
tens of thousands left homeless in the wake of the storm. NBC News could
not immediately confirm those numbers.
"We have nothing left," Saintful Jean Perpetu,
who lives in the storm-ravaged town of Jeremie, told reporters.
"Our
personal things, important documents like birth certificates — it's all
gone. We sleep on streets with our children and nobody came to help us
until now. "
The monstrous storm, Perpetu said, "took shirts from our backs."
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Source: NBC News
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