TS Alpha Kills 11 In Haiti - Reuters

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PORT-AU-PRINCE - At least 11 people were killed in Haiti when record-breaking Tropical Storm Alpha brought torrential rain to the impoverished Caribbean country, officials and witnesses said on Monday. The director of Haiti's Civil Protection Office, Alta Jean-Baptiste, said 8 people were killed on Sunday across the country.
Another three people were carried away by floodwaters that suddenly roared through the dry bed of the Riviere Froide river in the neighborhood of Ka Louijeune, in the Carrefour district just outside of Port-au-Prince.

"The river was coming down with a lot force. I saw four people walking in the river bed. Two were carried away by the floods and the two others managed to escape," Carlo Francois, a resident of Ka Louijeune, told Reuters.

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Alpha quickly weakened to a tropical depression over the mountains of Hispaniola and by 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) Monday, was located around 630 miles (1,010 km) southwest of Bermuda.

It was expected to merge with the remnants of Hurricane Wilma, which battered south Florida on Monday.

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[KoKo]

1. Sadly, the Haitians are a forgotten people.

There's a post on here about Canadian's exploiting them. Probably some more propaganda from the Bushie Press. Everyone has exploited Haiti. The poor denuded hurricane racked country that we keep installing folks to run and then taking them out. Even MzCondi did a little trip their recently to build PR that she hasn't forgotten her "roots." I'm sure she visited the "ruling class" up in the hills and never let her spiked boots touch the earth of the disaster that's the rest of Haiti.