22067: (Chamberlain) Caribbean-Storms (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

   PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 25 (AP) -- More than 200 bodies have been recovered
in Haiti after deadly floods swept through the impoverished nation and
neighboring Dominican Republic, the Haitian government said Wednesday. More
than 500 people were killed in both countries, and hundreds are missing.
   In the southern town of Grand Gosier, about 30 miles east of the
Dominican border, rescue teams collected 100 corpses, and another 100 were
recovered in the neighboring town of Mopou, said Haiti's Civil Protection
Director Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste.
   In addition to those dead, 158 were missing in Fond Verette, a Haitian
town near the Dominican border town of Jimani, where more than 280 bodies
have been recovered. More than 20 were also seen in the Dominican Republic
Wednesday.