Raging tropical storm Fay has brought floods to Haiti and the Dominican Republic, killing at least four people, according to information reaching here Saturday.
A man died Saturday in Haiti while trying to cross a river in Leogane, south of Port-au-Prince, AP cited Haitian official Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste as saying.
The overflowing Antibonite River has caused great damage to vast areas of rice paddies along the river and banana plantations north of the Haitian capital were also affected.
Meanwhile, in the Dominican Republic, a 34-year-old women and her 13-year-old niece and 5-year-old nephew lost their lives in turbulent waters and only her husband survived, the country's civil defense agency director Luis Luna Paulino said.
The killer storm is now heading toward Cuba and is expected to land near the Cuban capital city of Havana late Sunday, government officials warned, adding that the storm may leave a trail of destruction in the provinces of Villa Clara, Matanzas, Camaguey, Ciego de Avila and Sancti Spiritus.
According to forecasts by the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Fay is picking up momentum and quite likely to become a hurricane at the time it arrives in Florida, whose governor has already declared a "state of emergency."
Source:Xinhua
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