Posted on Thu, May. 27, 2004
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC/HAITI
Tales of loss emerge from island flooding
Stories of unimaginable loss were widespread after a flash flood left nearly 900 reported dead in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
BY OSCAR CORRAL
ocorral@herald.com
JIMANI, Dominican Republic - Gabriel Nova wandered around the moonscape that used to be his neighborhood Wednesday, peeking under every twisted sheet of zinc roofing and turning over every banana leaf in search of the four children that a furious flood tore from his grasp.
Despite his heartbreaking discovery of the bodies of two young boys clinging to each other under a pile of rubble, Nova never found his own children.
''Those two boys used to play with my kids,'' he said, his eyes watering. ``Why did this happen to us? As soon as an opportunity pops up or I get some help, I'm leaving this place.''
Nova's story of unimaginable loss was echoed by many others two days after a flash flood crippled this town on the border with Haiti, flattened the neighborhood of La Cuarenta and left nearly 900 reported dead here and in Haiti.
The flood, triggered when unusually heavy...(Full Story)
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