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Hurricane Matthew hammers Haiti and Cuba, bears down on US

Twice destroyed by hurricanes in the 18th century, Les Cayes was hit hard by Matthew.

By :  ch.v,m. krishna rao
Update: 2016-10-05 04:57 GMT
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.
Twice destroyed by hurricanes in the 18th century, Les Cayes was hit hard by Matthew.

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