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Hurricane Irene kills two in Haiti
wo people were killed when Hurricane Irene passed off the north coast of Haiti, drenching the island with heavy rains that flooded houses, cut roads, unleashed landslides and devastated farm fields.
Civil defence officials said in a statement that the two were swept away by raging waters in a ravine in Mohotiere, in northwest Haiti.
Other people in that same region were injured when a wall collapsed following a heavy downpour.
In giving an update on the situation in Haiti since Irene passed, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) spokesperson Emmanuelle Schneider said nearly 1,000 people were evacuated to emergency centres.
In the Bahamas, particularly in the southeast islands of the archipelago, there was massive flooding, several homes and other buildings were either destroyed or damaged, roofs were blown off, and trees and power lines were downed. Telephone and electricity services were also disrupted.
Reports coming out of Turks and Caicos have indicated that there was flooding and minimal damage to housing stock.
