Twice destroyed by hurricanes in the 18th century, Les Cayes was hit hard by Matthew.
Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade, hit Cuba and Haiti with 140 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds on Tuesday, pummeling towns, farmland and resorts, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to take cover. People work to remove an uprooted tree from a road in Leogane, Haiti.- Two men remove a downed power line to allow vehicles passage, in Petit Goave, Haiti.
- A woman and a child walk in a waterlogged street as they head to a shelter under the pouring rain caused by Hurricane Matthew, in Leogane, Haiti.
- People work to remove debris from a street allowing vehicles to pass, in Leogane, Haiti.
- In the Cuban city of Guantanamo, streets emptied as people moved to shelters or inside their homes.
- A sewage worker clears a sewer in a street flooded by the rains of Hurricane Matthew, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- Early reports suggested that Cuba had not been hit as hard as Haiti, where the situation was described as “catastrophic†in the port town of Les Cayes.
- Over 2,00,000 people were killed in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, in the January 2010 earthquake. Residents head to a shelter in Leogane, Haiti.
- People work to remove debris from a street allowing vehicles to pass, in Leogane, Haiti.
- At least four people were killed in the Dominican Republic by collapsing walls and mudslides, as well as two in Haiti, where communications in the worst-hit areas were down, making it hard for authorities to assess the scale of the damage.
- As it barrelled towards the United States, the eye of the storm had reached the coast of eastern Cuba by Tuesday evening, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
- Dubbed by the UN the worst humanitarian crisis to hit Haiti since a devastating 2010 earthquake, the Category Four hurricane unleashed torrential rain on the island of Hispaniola that Haiti shares with Dominican Republic.
Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade, hit Cuba and Haiti with 140 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds on Tuesday, pummeling towns, farmland and resorts, and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to take cover. People work to remove an uprooted tree from a road in Leogane, Haiti.
Twice destroyed by hurricanes in the 18th century, Les Cayes was hit hard by Matthew.
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