| At least 42 people were dead, 85 others injured and thousands more displaced after a weekend of heavy rainfall and widespread flooding in Haiti, officials said. More than 13,000 homes were waterlogged, displacing people across the Caribbean nation, according to the country’s disaster response agency. |
| Videos circulating on social media depict dramatic scenes of flooded roadways that look like flowing rivers, with vehicles floating away. |
| The death toll was the highest in the port city of Léogâne — west of Port-au-Prince, the capital — where 19 people died, according to the authorities. As of yesterday afternoon, there were no deaths or injuries reported in Port-au-Prince, but about 4,500 homes there were affected by flooding, the authorities said. |
| Context: The flooding is the latest blow to a country that has become all too familiar with natural disasters, most notably a magnitude-7 earthquake in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people and destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, leaving lasting effects on the nation’s economy and infrastructure. |
