Hurricane Matthew: Hundreds dead in Haiti storm disaster

Link:http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37582009

Mateo hurricane has caused 300 deaths in Haiti and in the city of Jeremie, 80% of its buildings were demolished and the province of Sud some 30,000 homes were destroyed and four people also died in the Dominican Republic because of the storm.

Now the hurricane with winds of 193km / h goes to the coasts of Florida, after passing through Haiti and Cuba has been directed to the Bahamas but only there was damage to trees and power lines, while in Haiti there were many killed by the fall of trees, debris and flooding of the river because they were in towns and fishing villages along the coast.

The UN, the Red Cross and the US are helping with supplies of medicine, food and water with the help of nine US helicopters with water and food for the affected

Haiti is more vulnerable to disasters because they live in poor neighborhoods with poor care, deforestation has caused soil erosion and political instability.