Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island (AP)


Written on September 7, 2008 – 10:41 am | by

A man walks through flood waters as he pulls a wheelbarrow loaded with a coffin containing the body of a man who died from hypertension triggered during flooding after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Hanna has killed 166 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. At the local jail, emaciated inmates waited for food to stave off starvation.


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