{"id":162260,"date":"2022-02-02T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162260"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:02:35","slug":"haiti-floods-kill-at-least-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=162260","title":{"rendered":"Haiti floods kill at least four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2022\/02\/02\/image-41970-1643772715.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Flooding triggered by torrential rain in Haiti left four people dead and one missing, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Violent weather affected at least 20 districts across Haiti in recent days, flooding more than 2,500 homes and completely destroying three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Three of the deaths and the missing person were reported in the northwest of the impoverished Caribbean country. The fourth fatality was in the northeast, civil defense officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 At least 20 municipalities in the country were affected by the bad weather. Haitian authorities estimated that more than 2,500 houses had flooded, with three completely destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Cap-Haitien, Haiti&#8217;s second largest city with 300,000 inhabitants, was hit particularly hard, with a number of neighborhoods flooded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 A bridge serving a small town in the northeast was damaged and an industrial park was flooded in the same area, bordering the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 However, a full picture of the damage is not yet available as travel in the city is still difficult, the country&#8217;s Civil Protection agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 Major damage during heavy rains in Haiti is not uncommon due to poor drainage infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 A lack of an efficient garbage collection system also poses a health hazard during downpours, particularly for Haiti&#8217;s poorest families living in informal dwellings near canals or ravines blocked with waste. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/facebook.svg\" alt=\"facebook sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\" alt=\"twitter sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/messenger.svg\" alt=\"messenger sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/whatsapp.svg\" alt=\"whatsapp sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/sharethis.svg\" alt=\"sharethis sharing button\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Flooding triggered by torrential rain in Haiti left four people dead and one missing, authorities said. \u00a0\u00a0 Violent weather affected at least 20 districts across Haiti in recent days, flooding more than 2,500 homes and completely destroying three. \u00a0\u00a0 Three of the deaths and the missing person were reported in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":162261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/162261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}