Hurricane Matthew claims more than 800 lives in Haiti

The death toll in Haiti, as a result of Hurricane Matthew, has soared to more than 800. Rescue efforts are under way to assess the destruction left in the wake of the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade. The UN has said it could take days to assess the full impact of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti as rescue teams gain access to southern areas cut off by the storm. The World Food Programme official Carlos Veloso



said some of the hard hit towns can only be reached by air or sea. 

Many of the deaths in Haiti were in the south-western coast, which suffered the full force of the hurricane this week.Meanwhile, Hurricane Matthew is currently battering the coastline of the US state of Florida but has been downgraded to a Category Two storm, with sustained wind speed dropping to 177 kilometer per hour.