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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- The death toll in Haiti from Tropical Storm Hanna reached 137, U.N. officials in the poor Caribbean nation said.
Up to 600,000 people are also in need of some kind of emergency aid, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Thursday.
Haiti's third-largest city Gonaives was decimated by Hanna as the storm lingered over the island nation for four days.
"In Gonaives alone, we have some 70,000 people in shelters and around 250,000 around Gonaives City need our assistance and that of the government," Joel Boutroue, the United Nation's coordinator for aid in Haiti, told the BBC. "And throughout the country I would say around up to 600,000 people might require our assistance."
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