Shocking before-and-after satellite images show horrific destruction in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew which killed 1,000 and left 1.4million people in need of humanitarian assistance
- Newly released satellite images show the destruction Haiti endured after Hurricane Matthew caused widespread devastation in the country
- Aerial scenes of destruction on the western side of the country's southern peninsula can be seen now after the storm hit last week
- New images show numerous structures destroyed as roofs were ripped from buildings and trees that were once there are now completely missing
- Satellite images taken in 2013 show structures intact and an abundance of vegetation
- As of Monday, some of the 1,000 people killed in the wake of the powerful Category Four storm were buried in mass graves, Haitian officials said
Shocking newly released before-and-after satellite images show the horrific destruction that Haiti endured after Hurricane Matthew caused widespread devastation in the country.
The images taken by DigitalGlobe on October 9 show scenes of destruction on the western side of the country's southern peninsula.
Before the deadly hurricane hit, satellite images taken in 2013 of three different cities show structures intact, as many are surrounded by an abundance of vegetation.
Now, the new images show numerous structures totally destroyed as roofs were ripped from buildings and trees that were once there are now completely missing.
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As of Monday, some of the 1,000 people killed in the wake of the powerful Category Four storm were buried in mass graves, Haitian officials said.
The powerful hurricane, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into Haiti on Tuesday with 145mph winds and torrential rains that left 1.4million people in need of humanitarian assistance, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
According to a Reuters tally of numbers from local officials, it showed that 1,000 people were killed by the storm in Haiti, which has a population of about 10million and is the poorest country in the Americas.
The official death toll from the central civil protection agency is 336, a slower count because officials must visit each village to confirm the numbers.
Ruins: A woman and a child sit on a buckets amid the ruins of their home destroyed by Hurricane Matthew, in Jeremie, Haiti on Monday
Authorities had to start burying the dead in mass graves in Jeremie because the bodies were starting to decompose, said Kedner Frenel, the most senior central government official in the Grand'Anse region on Haiti's western peninsula.
Frenel said 522 people were killed in Grand'Anse alone.
A tally of deaths reported by mayors from 15 of 18 municipalities in Sud Department on the south side of the peninsula showed 386 people there.
In the rest of the country, 92 people were killed, the same tally showed.
Frenel said there was great concern about cholera spreading, and that authorities were focused on getting water, food and medication to the thousands of people living in shelters.
Cholera causes severe diarrhea and can kill within hours if untreated.
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