At least 25 people have been killed in Haiti after a river swollen by Hurricane Melissa burst its banks, flooding homes and sweeping away entire neighbourhoods in the southern coastal town of Petit-Goave, officials said on Wednesday.
Jean Bertrand Subreme, the town's mayor, told the Associated Press that the La Digue river overflowed following torrential rains from the hurricane, inundating dozens of homes. "I am overwhelmed by the situation," he said, adding that rescue efforts were underway but that many peop
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