Some 130 people are reported to have died in fierce rainstorms that have swept across the Caribbean island of Hispanola.
According to the BBC News website, at least 80 were killed in the Dominican republic when two rivers broke their banks, while in neighbouring Haiti, nearly 60 people are reported to have died in flooding.
The island has reportedly seen two weeks of torrential rain, with weather experts warning that the heavy falls will continue for at least a couple more days.
One Dominican Republic MP, Atila Perez, is quoted as saying that all that remains of some neighbourhoods was “pieces of timber and clothing embedded in the mud”.
The appalling weather is also reportedly affecting the US territory of Puerto Rico, where at least one person is missing and hundreds have been made homeless.
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
